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)