Joanna Kerns
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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.
Known for
Credits
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
as Annette
Knocked Up (2007)
as Alison's Mom
Coma (1978)
as Diane
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
as Dr. Clare Winslow
She's Having a Baby (1988)
as Joanna Kerns (uncredited)
All Over the Guy (2001)
as Lydia
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain (1982)
as Doris Marshall
The Preppie Murder (1989)
as Linda Fairstein
A Bunny's Tale (1985)
as Andrea
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992)
as Mel Robbins
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn (1994)
as Carol Cochran
Not in My Family (1993)
as Veronica Ricci
The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)
as Anita Parrish
Those She Left Behind (1989)
as Diane Pappas
A*P*E (1976)
as Marilyn Baker
The Man with Three Wives (1993)
as Katy
No One Could Protect Her (1996)
as Jessica Rayner
At the Mercy of a Stranger (1999)
as Elizabeth Cooper
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! (1975)
as Citizen (uncredited)
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers (2004)
as Maggie Seaver
Terror in the Family (1996)
as Cynthia Marten
Voices That Care (1991)
as Self - Choir Member
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade (1989)
as Self
Marriage Is Alive and Well (1980)
as Meg
The Growing Pains Movie (2000)
as Maggie Seaver
Shameful Secrets (1993)
as Maryanne Walker-Tate
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. (1984)
as Pamela Saletta
Street Justice (1987)
as Catherine Watson
Mistress (1987)
as Stephanie
Sisters and Other Strangers (1997)
as Gail Connelly Metzger
Cross My Heart (1987)
as Nancy
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain (1982)
as Doris Marshall
The Million Dollar Rip-Off (1976)
as Jessie
Ain't It Funny (2017)
as Mom
Whose Daughter is She? (1995)
as Laura Eagerton
Mortal Fear (1994)
as Dr. Jennifer Kessler
Mother Knows Best (1997)
as Celeste Cooper
See Jane Run (1995)
as Jane Ravenson
Deadly Intentions... Again? (1991)
as Sally
Captive (1991)
as Kathy Plunk
Stormin' Home (1985)
as Lana Singer
Emma's Wish (1998)
as Emma Bridges-Mame
Love Struck (1986)
Actor
The Nightman (1992)
as Eve