Joanna Kerns
Acting
Born 1953-02-12
San Francisco, California, USA
132 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Grey's Anatomy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Good Doctor
FBI
One Tree Hill
Chicago Med
Hunter
Psych
Pretty Little Liars
The Love Boat
Chicago Hope
ER
Ghost Whisperer
Scrubs
The A-Team
Dawson's Creek
The Goldbergs
The Division
Medium
Private Practice
Hill Street Blues
Magnum, P.I.
This Is Us
Army Wives
Judging Amy
Emergency!
Strong Medicine
Quincy, M.E.
Charlie's Angels
Nashville
Switched at Birth
Jane the Virgin
Starsky & Hutch
Intimate Portrait
Felicity
Boston Public
Joan of Arcadia
Happy's Place
Awkward.
The Tony Danza Show
Three's Company
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Ally McBeal
The Wonderful World of Disney
Fuller House
Laverne & Shirley
Knocked Up
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Switch
Growing Pains
Rhoda
Clueless
Phil of the Future
Man with a Plan
Remember WENN
V
Girl, Interrupted
Less than Perfect
Suddenly Susan
Chasing Life
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