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.

Filmography of Joyce Chopra

• Gramercy Stories (2008)
• Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006)
• Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003)
• The Last Cowboy (2003)
• Everwood (2002)
• Crossing Jordan (2001)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
• Blonde (2001)
• Rip Girls (2000)
• Murder in a Small Town (1999)
• Replacing Dad (1999)
• The Lady in Question (1999)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
• L.A. Johns (1997)
• Convictions (1997)
• My Very Best Friend (1996)
• Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995)
• The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1994)
• The Disappearance of Nora (1993)
• The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
• Baby Snatcher (1992)
• Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991)
• The Lemon Sisters (1989)
• Smooth Talk (1985)
• American Playhouse (1982)
• Music Lessons: The Kodaly Method in the American Classroom (1981)
• Martha Clarke Light & Dark: A Dancer’s Journal (1980)
• Girls at 12 (1975)
• Clorae and Albie (1975)
• Joyce at 34 (1972)
• Marathon (1965)
• A Happy Mother's Day (1963)