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
E! True Hollywood Story
Chicago Hope
Hill Street Blues
Switch
Emergency!
Quincy, M.E.
The A-Team
Three's Company
Laverne & Shirley
Charlie's Angels
CHiPs
Hope and Gloria
Rhoda
The Wonderful World of Disney
Magnum, P.I.
She's Having a Baby
V
Girl, Interrupted
Knocked Up
At the Mercy of a Stranger
The Man with Three Wives
The Four Seasons
Growing Pains
Hunter
Whose Daughter is She?
Emma's Wish
Blind Faith
Production Credits
The Good Doctor
Medium
Army Wives
Privileged
This Is Us
Private Practice
Judging Amy
Ghost Whisperer
Beggars and Choosers
Clubhouse
FBI
One Tree Hill
Light as a Feather
WHAT / IF
That's Life
Hope and Gloria
ER
Leap of Faith
Pretty Little Liars
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Dawson's Creek
Suddenly Susan
Titans
Remember WENN
Man with a Plan
Growing Pains
Grey's Anatomy
Switched at Birth
Nashville
Clueless
Psych
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Jane the Virgin
Scrubs
Friends with Benefits
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