Birth Name: Joseph Hill Whedon
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: June 23, 1964
Ethnicity: English, some Scottish
Joss Whedon is an American writer, director, producer, composer, and actor. He is the son of Ann Lee (Jeffries) Stearns, a teacher, and Tom Whedon (Thomas Avery Whedon), a television writer.
Joss’s paternal grandparents were John Whedon (John Ogden Whedon, also a television writer, the son of Burt Denison Whedon and Marian Jameson Steele) and Louise Carroll Angell (the daughter of Ralph Carroll Angell and Edna Louise White).
Joss’s maternal grandparents were James Harvey Jeffries (the son of James Harvey Jeffries and Mary Hunter Patterson) and Anna Lee Hill (the daughter of Chester A. Hill and Nora Selby Lee).
Sources: Genealogy of Joss Whedon (focusing on his father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Joss’s paternal grandfather, John Ogden Whedon, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Joss’s paternal grandmother, Louise Carroll Angell, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Louise Carroll Angell on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Joss’s maternal grandfather, James Harvey Jeffries, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Joss’s maternal grandmother, Anna Lee Hill, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org