
Joanna Kerns
Acting
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.

Ain't It Funny
Mom

Knocked Up
Alison's Mom

Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Maggie Seaver

All Over the Guy
Lydia

The Growing Pains Movie
Maggie Seaver

Girl, Interrupted
Annette

At the Mercy of a Stranger
Elizabeth Cooper

Emma's Wish
Emma Bridges-Mame

Sisters and Other Strangers
Gail Connelly Metzger

Mother Knows Best
Celeste Cooper

Terror in the Family
Cynthia Marten

No One Could Protect Her
Jessica Rayner

Whose Daughter is She?
Laura Eagerton

See Jane Run
Jane Ravenson

Mortal Fear
Dr. Jennifer Kessler

No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
Carol Cochran

Shameful Secrets
Maryanne Walker-Tate

The Man with Three Wives
Katy

Not in My Family
Veronica Ricci

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Mel Robbins

The Nightman
Eve

Captive
Kathy Plunk

Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member

Deadly Intentions... Again?
Sally

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Dr. Clare Winslow

Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
Self

The Preppie Murder
Linda Fairstein

Those She Left Behind
Diane Pappas

She's Having a Baby
Joanna Kerns (uncredited)

Cross My Heart
Nancy

Street Justice
Catherine Watson

Love Struck

The Rape of Richard Beck
Anita Parrish

Stormin' Home
Lana Singer

A Bunny's Tale
Andrea

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
Pamela Saletta

Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
Doris Marshall

A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
Doris Marshall

Marriage Is Alive and Well
Meg

Coma
Diane

The Million Dollar Rip-Off
Jessie

A*P*E
Marilyn Baker

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Citizen (uncredited)







