Joanna Kerns

Known for ActingBorn 1953-02-12 (age 73)San Francisco, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

For the People

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Leap of Faith

Chicago Med

This Is Us

Grey's Anatomy

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Ghost Whisperer

E! True Hollywood Story

FBI

Scrubs

Pretty Little Liars

Jane the Virgin

Sisters and Other Strangers

Psych

The Man with Three Wives

Light as a Feather

Love Struck

One Tree Hill

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Emergency!

Private Practice

Boston Public

Girl, Interrupted

V

The Goldbergs

Fuller House

Switched at Birth

Awkward.

The Baker and the Beauty

Army Wives

Medium

Judging Amy

Any Day Now

Strong Medicine

Hill Street Blues

Joan of Arcadia

Three's Company

Chasing Life

The A-Team

Dawson's Creek

Quincy, M.E.

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