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