
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

Blind Faith

Hunter

Whose Daughter is She?

Emma's Wish
Production Credits

Army Wives

That's Life

Chicago Med

Psych

Medium

Switched at Birth

This Is Us

Jane the Virgin

One Tree Hill

The Goldbergs

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Grey's Anatomy

Privileged

Clueless

Beggars and Choosers

Dawson's Creek

Ally McBeal

WHAT / IF

FBI

Man with a Plan

ER

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

The Good Doctor

Leap of Faith

Nashville

Pretty Little Liars

Light as a Feather

Suddenly Susan

Scrubs

Happy's Place

Strong Medicine

Ghost Whisperer

Growing Pains

Judging Amy

Remember WENN

Hope and Gloria

Awkward.

Friends with Benefits

Private Practice

Titans

Clubhouse
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