Joyce Chopra

Biography

Joyce Chopra is an American director and writer of feature films and television. Chopra graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Chopra was married to American stage and screenwriter Tom Cole until he died on February 23, 2009. Her first narrative feature-length film, Smooth Talk (1985), won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and was adapted by her husband, Tom Cole.

Directed

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Director
2. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) — Director
3. Everwood (2002) — Director
4. Crossing Jordan (2001) — Director
5. Smooth Talk (1985) — Director
6. Rip Girls (2000) — Director
7. Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006) — Director
8. Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991) — Director
9. Blonde (2001) — Director
10. Baby Snatcher (1992) — Director
11. The Last Cowboy (2003) — Director
12. The Lemon Sisters (1989) — Director
13. A Happy Mother's Day (1963) — Director
14. The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992) — Director
15. L.A. Johns (1997) — Director
16. American Playhouse (1982) — Director
17. Murder in a Small Town (1999) — Director
18. Joyce at 34 (1972) — Director
19. Replacing Dad (1999) — Director
20. The Disappearance of Nora (1993) — Director
21. Angel Falls (1993) — Director
22. Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003) — Director
23. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1994) — Director
24. Convictions (1997) — Director
25. The Lady in Question (1999) — Director
26. Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995) — Director
27. Martha Clarke Light & Dark: A Dancer’s Journal (1980) — Director
28. Girls at 12 (1975) — Director
29. My Very Best Friend (1996) — Director
30. Marathon (1965) — Director
31. Gramercy Stories (2008) — Director
32. Music Lessons: The Kodaly Method in the American Classroom (1981) — Director
33. That Our Children Would Not Die (1978) — Director
34. Matina Horner: Portrait of a Person (1973) — Director
35. Sally Garcia and Family (1978) — Director
36. Clorae and Albie (1975) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Joyce at 34 (1972) — Self
2. Calling the Shots (1988) — Self
3. This Is a Film About My Mother (2022) — Anne