Cast
Joanna Kerns
Acting
Cast
Joanna Kerns
Known for
Acting
Born
1953-02-12
From
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known as Joanne Crussie DeVarona, Joanne Kerns, Joanna Kearns
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.
Girl, Interrupted
as Annette
Knocked Up
as Alison's Mom
Coma
as Diane
She's Having a Baby
as Joanna Kerns (uncredited)
Mortal Fear
as Dr. Jennifer Kessler
Not in My Family
as Veronica Ricci
The Nightman
as Eve
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
as Citizen (uncredited)
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Dr. Clare Winslow
The Rape of Richard Beck
as Anita Parrish
The Preppie Murder
as Linda Fairstein
Shameful Secrets
as Maryanne Walker-Tate
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
All Over the Guy
as Lydia
Street Justice
as Catherine Watson
See Jane Run
as Jane Ravenson
Mother Knows Best
as Celeste Cooper
Captive
as Kathy Plunk
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
as Maggie Seaver
Deadly Intentions... Again?
as Sally
Cross My Heart
as Nancy
A*P*E
as Marilyn Baker
A Bunny's Tale
as Andrea
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
as Doris Marshall
Mistress
as Stephanie
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
as Mel Robbins
No One Could Protect Her
as Jessica Rayner
Terror in the Family
as Cynthia Marten
Sisters and Other Strangers
as Gail Connelly Metzger
Those She Left Behind
as Diane Pappas
At the Mercy of a Stranger
as Elizabeth Cooper
The Growing Pains Movie
as Maggie Seaver
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
as Doris Marshall
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
as Carol Cochran
Marriage Is Alive and Well
as Meg
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
as Jessie
Stormin' Home
as Lana Singer
Love Struck
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Pamela Saletta
Emma's Wish
as Emma Bridges-Mame
Whose Daughter is She?
as Laura Eagerton
The Man with Three Wives
as Katy
Ain't It Funny
as Mom
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
as Self