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