Joanna Kerns
Acting
1953-02-12 · 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.
Filmography
Love, Danielle
2024 · Movie
Happy's Place
2024 · Series
Night Court
2023 · Series
The Baker and the Beauty
2020 · Series
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
2019 · Series
WHAT / IF
2019 · Series
Light as a Feather
2018 · Series
FBI
2018 · Series
Unrest
2017 · Movie
The Good Doctor
2017 · Series
Ain't It Funny
2017 · Movie
Man with a Plan
2016 · Series
This Is Us
2016 · Series
Fuller House
2016 · Series
Recovery Road
2016 · Series
Chicago Med
2015 · Series
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015 · Series
Jane the Virgin
2014 · Series
Chasing Life
2014 · Series
The Goldbergs
2013 · Series
Nashville
2012 · Series
Friends with Benefits
2011 · Series
Awkward.
2011 · Series
Switched at Birth
2011 · Series
Pretty Little Liars
2010 · Series
Eastwick
2009 · Series
Privileged
2008 · Series
Samantha Who?
2007 · Series
Private Practice
2007 · Series
Army Wives
2007 · Series
Knocked Up
2007 · Movie
Notes from the Underbelly
2007 · Series
Men in Trees
2006 · Series
Psych
2006 · Series
Related
2005 · Series
Ghost Whisperer
2005 · Series
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Series
Medium
2005 · Series
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004 · Movie
Clubhouse
2004 · Series
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Series
Phil of the Future
2004 · Series
Joan of Arcadia
2003 · Series
One Tree Hill
2003 · Series
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
2003 · Movie
The O'Keefes
2003 · Series
Less than Perfect
2002 · Series
For the People
2002 · Series
Leap of Faith
2002 · Series
Scrubs
2001 · Series
All Over the Guy
2001 · Movie
The Division
2001 · Series
The Growing Pains Movie
2000 · Movie
Boston Public
2000 · Series
Titans
2000 · Series
That's Life
2000 · Series
Strong Medicine
2000 · Series
Girl, Interrupted
1999 · Movie
At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999 · Movie
Judging Amy
1999 · Series
Beggars and Choosers
1999 · Series
Emma's Wish
1998 · Movie
Felicity
1998 · Series
Any Day Now
1998 · Series
Love Boat: The Next Wave
1998 · Series
Dawson's Creek
1998 · Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997 · Series
Ally McBeal
1997 · Series
Sisters and Other Strangers
1997 · Movie
Mother Knows Best
1997 · Movie
Clueless
1996 · Series
Suddenly Susan
1996 · Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
Terror in the Family
1996 · Movie
Aliens in the Family
1996 · Series
No One Could Protect Her
1996 · Movie
Remember WENN
1996 · Series
Whose Daughter is She?
1995 · Movie
Hope and Gloria
1995 · Series
See Jane Run
1995 · Movie
Mortal Fear
1994 · Movie
ER
1994 · Series
Chicago Hope
1994 · Series
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994 · Movie
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
Shameful Secrets
1993 · Movie
The Man with Three Wives
1993 · Movie
Not in My Family
1993 · Movie
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992 · Movie
The Nightman
1992 · Movie
Captive
1991 · Movie
Voices That Care
1991 · Movie
Deadly Intentions... Again?
1991 · Movie
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990 · Movie
Blind Faith
1990 · Series
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1989 · Movie
The Preppie Murder
1989 · Movie
Those She Left Behind
1989 · Movie
She's Having a Baby
1988 · Movie
Cross My Heart
1987 · Movie
Mistress
1987 · Movie
Street Justice
1987 · Movie
Love Struck
1986 · Movie
Growing Pains
1985 · Series
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985 · Movie
Stormin' Home
1985 · Movie
A Bunny's Tale
1985 · Movie
Street Hawk
1985 · Series
Hunter
1984 · Series
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1984 · Movie
The Four Seasons
1984 · Series
V
1983 · Series
The A-Team
1983 · Series
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982 · Movie
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1982 · Movie
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Series
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · Series
Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980 · Movie
Coma
1978 · Movie
The Love Boat
1977 · Series
CHiPs
1977 · Series
Three's Company
1977 · Series
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Series
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Series
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976 · Movie
A*P*E
1976 · Movie
Laverne & Shirley
1976 · Series
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Series
Switch
1975 · Series
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975 · Movie
Rhoda
1974 · Series
Emergency!
1972 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series