
Joanna Kerns
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Biography
Joanna Crussie DeVarona Kerns is an American actress and director best known for her role as Maggie Seaver on the family situation comedy Growing Pains from 1985 to 1992.
After Growing Pains ended, she turned to directing. She directed one episode of Growing Pains while starring on the show and got hooked. She has also directed episodes of television shows including Dawson's Creek, Titans, Scrubs, Private Practice, Psych, Felicity, Grey's Anatomy, Privileged, ER, Ghost Whisperer, Army Wives, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, The Goldbergs, This Is Us, and Fuller House.
She has also made notable appearances in feature films, including A*P*E, Girl, Interrupted, and the 2007 comedy Knocked Up. She has also starred in a number of TV movies.
In 1974, Kerns met a commercial producer, Richard Kerns, on the set of a commercial, and they married two years later. Their marriage lasted nine years and the couple had a daughter, Ashley Cooper. In 1994, she married Marc Appleton, a prominent Los Angeles architect. In August 2019, she filed for divorce from Appleton.
She previously dated comedian and actor Freddie Prinze a short time before he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The two had worked together on the 1976 TV movie, The Million Dollar Rip-Off.
Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Magnum, P.I.

E! True Hollywood Story

Starsky & Hutch

Chicago Hope

Hill Street Blues

Switch

Emergency!

Quincy, M.E.

The Love Boat

The A-Team

Three's Company

Laverne & Shirley

Charlie's Angels

CHiPs

Hope and Gloria

Rhoda

The Wonderful World of Disney

Hunter

She's Having a Baby

V

Girl, Interrupted

Knocked Up

At the Mercy of a Stranger

The Man with Three Wives

Growing Pains

The Four Seasons

Emma's Wish

Whose Daughter is She?

Blind Faith
Production Credits

WHAT / IF

That's Life

This Is Us

Pretty Little Liars

Clueless

Judging Amy

Growing Pains

Titans

Suddenly Susan

Happy's Place

Army Wives

FBI

Grey's Anatomy

Chicago Med

ER

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Friends with Benefits

Leap of Faith

Medium

Light as a Feather

The Good Doctor

Scrubs

Dawson's Creek

Ghost Whisperer

Private Practice

Psych

Nashville

Man with a Plan

The Goldbergs

Ally McBeal

Switched at Birth

Privileged

Beggars and Choosers

Hope and Gloria

Jane the Virgin

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

One Tree Hill

Remember WENN

Clubhouse
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