---
name: "Janice Cooke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/janice-cooke"
fi1m_id: "janice-cooke"
imdb_id: "nm0177512"
tmdb_id: 1212230
wikidata_id: "Q15433366"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "16 March 1956"
died: "7 December 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:11:58.713787+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Janice Cooke

## Identity

Janice Cooke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/janice-cooke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** janice-cooke
- **IMDb ID:** nm0177512
- **TMDB ID:** 1212230
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15433366
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Cooke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15433366, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177512/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212230

Director. Born 16 March 1956. Died 7 December 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 16 March 1956
- **Died:** 7 December 2024
- **Also known as:** J. Cooke-Leonard, Janice Cooke-Leonard,  Janice A. Cook , Janice A. Cooke , Janice Cooke Leonard
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Cooke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15433366, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177512/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212230

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*One Tree Hill*](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md) (66)

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## Biography

Janice Cooke, also credited as Janice Cooke-Leonard, was an American television director and producer. Born on 16 March 1956, she died on 7 December 2024. She began her career as an associate producer on the series *Fantasy Island* in 1980, followed by producing credits on *Blue Thunder*, *Werewolf*, *Hard Time on Planet Earth*, *Moon Over Miami*, *The Marshal*, *Any Day Now* and *Dawson's Creek*.

Her directorial debut was on *Any Day Now*. Cooke directed episodes of many series, including *One Tree Hill* (2003), *Charmed* (1998), *The Division*, *Summerland*, *Close to Home*, *Privileged*, *The Ex List*, *The Cleaner*, *90210*, *Cold Case*, *Gossip Girl* (2007), *Bluff City Law*, *Station 19* (2018), *How to Get Away with Murder* (2014), *4400*, *Swagger*, *Raising Dion*, *BMF*, *Wu-Tang: An American Saga*, *Joe Pickett* and *The Irrational* (2023). She also worked on the web series *Hollywood Is Like High School with Money*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *One Tree Hill* (2003), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Swagger* (2021), series, Director
- *4400* (2021), series, Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019), series, Director
- *L.A.'s Finest* (2019), series, Director
- *Games People Play* (2019), series, Director
- *I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story* (2019), Director
- *Station 19* (2018), series, Director
- *Instinct* (2018), series, Director
- *Manhunt* (2017), series, Director
- *Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge and Michel'le* (2016), Director
- *MacGyver* (2016), series, Director
- *Greenleaf* (2016), series, Director
- *Animal Kingdom* (2016), series, Director
- *Containment* (2016), series, Director
- *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015), series, Director
- *Stitchers* (2015), series, Director
- *UnREAL* (2015), series, Director
- *CSI: Cyber* (2015), series, Director
- *Jane the Virgin* (2014), series, Director
- *How to Get Away with Murder* (2014), series, Director
- *Chasing Life* (2014), series, Director
- *Ravenswood* (2013), series, Director
- *Grimm* (2011), series, Director
- *Hart of Dixie* (2011), series, Director
- *Switched at Birth* (2011), series, Director
- *Hollywood Is Like High School with Money* (2010), series, Director
- *Pretty Little Liars* (2010), series, Director
- *Royal Pains* (2009), series, Director
- *Privileged* (2008), series, Director
- *90210* (2008), series, Director
- *Gossip Girl* (2007), series, Director
- *Medium* (2005), series, Director
- *Summerland* (2004), series, Director
- *Cold Case* (2003), series, Director
- *One Tree Hill* (2003), series, Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)
- *The Division* (2001), series, Director
- *Charmed* (1998), series, Director
- *Where's Marlowe?* (1998), Co-Producer
- *Any Day Now* (1998), series, Director
- *Dawson's Creek* (1998), series, Director
- *The Magnificent Seven* (1998), series, Co-Producer
- *Ice* (1994), Co-Producer
- *T. J. Hooker* (1982), series, Associate Producer
- *Fantasy Island* (1978), series, Associate Producer

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