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
Growing Pains
The Four Seasons
Whose Daughter is She?
Hunter
Emma's Wish
Blind Faith
Production Credits
ER
Medium
Growing Pains
Clueless
Switched at Birth
Psych
Clubhouse
Light as a Feather
Titans
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Leap of Faith
Grey's Anatomy
Dawson's Creek
One Tree Hill
Nashville
Privileged
Hope and Gloria
Army Wives
Private Practice
The Good Doctor
Pretty Little Liars
Friends with Benefits
Beggars and Choosers
That's Life
This Is Us
Judging Amy
Suddenly Susan
Remember WENN
Scrubs
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
FBI
Ghost Whisperer
Jane the Virgin
Man with a Plan
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