Joyce Chopra
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.
35 directing credits · 3 acting credits
Directing · 35
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Crossing Jordan
2001
Everwood
2002
Blonde
2001
Angel Falls
1993
Rip Girls
2000
Smooth Talk
1985
Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
2006
The Lemon Sisters
1989
Murder in a Small Town
1999
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story
1991
Convictions
1997
The Lady in Question
1999
The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
1992
Replacing Dad
1999
The Last Cowboy
2003
L.A. Johns
1997
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
2003
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
1994
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
1995
My Very Best Friend
1996
Marathon
1965
The Disappearance of Nora
1993
Baby Snatcher
1992
That Our Children Would Not Die
1978
Music Lessons: The Kodaly Method in the American Classroom
1981
Gramercy Stories
2008
Joyce at 34
1972
A Happy Mother's Day
1963
Girls at 12
1975
Clorae and Albie
1975
Martha Clarke Light & Dark: A Dancer’s Journal
1980
Sally Garcia and Family
1978
Matina Horner: Portrait of a Person
1973
