
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

The Four Seasons

Growing Pains

Emma's Wish

Blind Faith

Whose Daughter is She?
Production Credits

Jane the Virgin

Privileged

Growing Pains

Clueless

That's Life

Leap of Faith

Happy's Place

Hope and Gloria

ER

Suddenly Susan

Light as a Feather

FBI

The Good Doctor

Dawson's Creek

Judging Amy

Pretty Little Liars

Clubhouse

The Goldbergs

Army Wives

WHAT / IF

Private Practice

Grey's Anatomy

Beggars and Choosers

Switched at Birth

Ghost Whisperer

Titans

Medium

Scrubs

Ally McBeal

Nashville

Chicago Med

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Man with a Plan

This Is Us

One Tree Hill

Friends with Benefits

Remember WENN

Psych

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
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