Victoria Hochberg

Born 1952-12-24 · United States

Victoria Greene Hochberg (born December 24, 1952) is an American film and television director and writer. She was one of the Original Six, a group of women directors who created the Women’s Steering Committee of the Director’s Guild of America, to protest against gender discrimination in Hollywood. She has directed episodes of Doogie Howser, M.D., Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Touched by an Angel, Models Inc., Melrose Place, Central Park West, Ally McBeal, Sex and the City, Kitchen Confidential, Ghost Whisperer, Notes from the Underbelly and Reaper. Hochberg has won two Daytime Emmy Awards for directing ABC Afterschool Special: Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story (1988) and the PBS television film Sweet 15 (1990). She has directed music videos for the Eagles and Boz Scaggs. In 1989 she directed Jacob Have I Loved starring Bridget Fonda and in 2002 she directed the film Dawg starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley.