Joanna Kerns
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 12, 1953 (age 73)
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, USA
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.
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Filmography
Ain't It Funny
Movie · as Mom
Eastwick
TV · as Edie · 1 ep
Knocked Up
Movie · as Alison's Mom
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Movie · as Maggie Seaver
The Tony Danza Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Less than Perfect
TV · as Judy, Owen's Other Mom · 2 eps
All Over the Guy
Movie · as Lydia
The Growing Pains Movie
Movie · as Maggie Seaver
Girl, Interrupted
Movie · as Annette
At the Mercy of a Stranger
Movie · as Elizabeth Cooper
Emma's Wish
Movie · as Emma Bridges-Mame
Mother Knows Best
Movie · as Celeste Cooper
Sisters and Other Strangers
Movie · as Gail Connelly Metzger
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · 1 ep
Terror in the Family
Movie · as Cynthia Marten
No One Could Protect Her
Movie · as Jessica Rayner
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep
Aliens in the Family
TV · as Self (voice) · 1 ep
Whose Daughter is She?
Movie · as Laura Eagerton
See Jane Run
Movie · as Jane Ravenson
Hope and Gloria
TV · as Joanna Kerns · 1 ep
Mortal Fear
Movie · as Dr. Jennifer Kessler
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
Movie · as Carol Cochran
Chicago Hope
TV · as Stephanie Serone · 2 eps
Shameful Secrets
Movie · as Maryanne Walker-Tate
Not in My Family
Movie · as Veronica Ricci
The Man with Three Wives
Movie · as Katy
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Movie · as Mel Robbins
The Nightman
Movie · as Eve
Voices That Care
Movie · as Self - Choir Member
Deadly Intentions... Again?
Movie · as Sally
Captive
Movie · as Kathy Plunk
An American Summer
Movie · as Aunt Sunny
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Movie · as Dr. Clare Winslow
Blind Faith
TV · as Maria Marshall · 2 eps
Those She Left Behind
Movie · as Diane Pappas
The Preppie Murder
Movie · as Linda Fairstein
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
Movie · as Self
She's Having a Baby
Movie · as Joanna Kerns (uncredited)
Street Justice
Movie · as Catherine Watson
Cross My Heart
Movie · as Nancy
Mistress
Movie · as Stephanie
Love Struck
Movie
The Rape of Richard Beck
Movie · as Anita Parrish
Stormin' Home
Movie · as Lana Singer
A Bunny's Tale
Movie · as Andrea
Growing Pains
TV · as Maggie Seaver · 166 eps
Street Hawk
TV · as Mona Wiliams · 1 ep
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
Movie · as Pamela Saletta
Hunter
TV · as Dr. Kettering · 1 ep
The Four Seasons
TV · as Pat Devon · 13 eps
The A-Team
TV · as Trish Brenner · 1 ep
V
TV · as Marjorie Donovan · 2 eps
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
Movie · as Doris Marshall
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
Movie · as Doris Marshall
Hill Street Blues
TV · 1 ep
Marriage Is Alive and Well
Movie · as Meg
Magnum, P.I.
TV · as Mary Kanfer, Jenny Hunter · 1 ep
Coma
Movie · as Diane
CHiPs
TV · as Colleen · 1 ep
The Love Boat
TV · as Beth Luckner · 1 ep
Three's Company
TV · as Bobby Trilling · 2 eps
A*P*E
Movie · as Marilyn Baker
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
Movie · as Jessie
Quincy, M.E.
TV · 1 ep
Charlie's Angels
TV · as Natalie · 1 ep
Laverne & Shirley
TV · 1 ep
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Movie · as Citizen (uncredited)
Starsky & Hutch
TV · 1 ep
Switch
TV · as Mae Brenner · 1 ep
Rhoda
TV · 1 ep
Emergency!
TV · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep