
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

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

Whose Daughter is She?

Blind Faith

Hunter

Emma's Wish
Production Credits

Judging Amy

Happy's Place

The Goldbergs

WHAT / IF

Leap of Faith

Army Wives

That's Life

Ghost Whisperer

Friends with Benefits

Private Practice

Medium

Psych

Clueless

Suddenly Susan

Switched at Birth

Beggars and Choosers

Ally McBeal

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Light as a Feather

Privileged

Man with a Plan

Grey's Anatomy

Remember WENN

Pretty Little Liars

Hope and Gloria

Jane the Virgin

Clubhouse

ER

One Tree Hill

Nashville

Dawson's Creek

Strong Medicine

Chicago Med

Scrubs

This Is Us

Titans

The Good Doctor

Awkward.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Growing Pains

FBI
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