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Factfile: Joss Whedon
- Joss was born on 23 June 1964, making him a Cancer
- The name Joss is Chinese for "Lucky"
- His father, Tom Whedon was a screenwriter and TV producer in Hollywood, and worked on shows such as The Dick Cavett Show and The Golden Girls
- He grew up in Manhattan
- He has two brothers, Samuel, a musician, and Matthew, a writer. He also has two half-brothers Zach, and Jed.
- Whedon went to school at Riverdale High in New York, a school at which his mother taught. However, she suggested a trip to England for her sabbatical…
- …So he then transferred to Winchester College in Hampshire, where he took his A-levels and lived for three years - staying on after his mother went back to the U.S after six months.
- The character of Rupert Giles from Buffy, is said to be based on a history teacher at Winchester.
- His interest in the movie world began as a teenager working in a video store. He went on to do Film Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut where he graduated in 1987.
- Whedon now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Kai Cole, their son Arden, and their four cats.
- Whedon's first writing job was on "Roseanne"
- He also wrote for the TV series of Parenthood, which stared David Arquette and Leonardo Di Caprio
- He wrote the fourth Alien film, "Alien: Resurrection"
- He co-wrote the Oscar-nominated "Toy Story"
- The film he would love to have written was Return of the Jedi
- Although he never intended to write for TV, he is perhaps best known for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel"
- The Buffy episode "Hush" was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2000 for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series.
- Joss has helped put some of Hollywood's hottest actors on the map, including Sarah Michelle Geller, David Boreanaz and Eliza Dushku.
- The programme was also crowned "Best Show of All Time" at the SFX Millennium Readers Awards in 2002.
- Following on from the release of the Firefly series in the UK on DVD, fans can also look forward to the release of "Serenity" in 2005, a feature length adaptation of the series.
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