Joanna Kerns
Known for: Acting
Born: February 12, 1953
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
47 movies · 86 TV shows, newest first
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Love, Danielle
2024
6.7
Happy's Place
2024
6.5
Night Court
2023
7.3
The Baker and the Beauty
2020
8.0
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
2019
6.4
WHAT / IF
2019
7.6
Light as a Feather
2018
7.9
FBI
2018
6.9
Unrest
2017
8.5
The Good Doctor
2017
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Ain't It Funny
2017
6.8
Man with a Plan
2016
8.2
This Is Us
2016
7.4
Fuller House
2016
6.4
Recovery Road
2016
8.3
Chicago Med
2015
6.8
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015
7.9
Jane the Virgin
2014
7.2
Chasing Life
2014
7.4
The Goldbergs
2013
6.6
Nashville
2012
6.5
Friends with Benefits
2011
7.4
Awkward.
2011
7.5
Switched at Birth
2011
8.0
Pretty Little Liars
2010
5.9
Eastwick
2009
7.1
Privileged
2008
6.5
Samantha Who?
2007
7.5
Private Practice
2007
7.5
Army Wives
2007
6.3
Knocked Up
2007
7.0
Notes from the Underbelly
2007
6.6
Men in Trees
2006
7.9
Psych
2006
9.3
Related
2005
8.1
Ghost Whisperer
2005
8.2
Grey's Anatomy
2005
7.5
Medium
2005
6.0
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004
5.0
Clubhouse
20046.4
The Tony Danza Show
2004
6.8
Phil of the Future
2004
7.3
Joan of Arcadia
2003
7.8
One Tree Hill
2003
7.0
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
20035.0
The O'Keefes
2003
6.7
Less than Perfect
200210.0
For the People
2002
8.5
Leap of Faith
2002
8.2
Scrubs
2001
5.8
All Over the Guy
2001
7.1
The Division
2001
7.0
The Growing Pains Movie
2000
7.7
Boston Public
2000
5.7
Titans
2000
7.0
That's Life
2000
7.4
Strong Medicine
2000
7.6
Girl, Interrupted
1999
6.3
At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999
7.5
Judging Amy
1999
4.2
Beggars and Choosers
1999
5.0
Emma's Wish
1998
6.6
Felicity
1998
7.5
Any Day Now
1998
4.9
Love Boat: The Next Wave
1998
7.3
Dawson's Creek
1998
6.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
6.5
Ally McBeal
1997
8.0
Sisters and Other Strangers
1997
6.1
Mother Knows Best
1997
6.3
Clueless
1996
6.0
Suddenly Susan
1996
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
6.0
Terror in the Family
1996
7.0
Aliens in the Family
1996
5.5
No One Could Protect Her
1996
7.8
Remember WENN
1996
5.6
Whose Daughter is She?
1995
6.3
Hope and Gloria
1995
6.5
See Jane Run
1995
5.5
Mortal Fear
1994
7.8
ER
1994
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
5.5
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
6.1
Shameful Secrets
1993
8.0
The Man with Three Wives
1993
5.1
Not in My Family
1993
4.2
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992
3.2
The Nightman
1992
6.0
Captive
1991
7.0
Voices That Care
1991
6.5
Deadly Intentions... Again?
1991
6.7
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990
6.4
Blind Faith
1990
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Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1989
5.6
The Preppie Murder
1989
6.7
Those She Left Behind
1989
5.9
She's Having a Baby
1988
5.3
Cross My Heart
1987
4.3
Mistress
1987
7.0
Street Justice
1987
8.0
Love Struck
1986
6.5
Growing Pains
1985
6.8
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985
7.0
Stormin' Home
1985
5.3
A Bunny's Tale
1985
7.0
Street Hawk
1985
7.1
Hunter
1984
9.0
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1984
10.0
The Four Seasons
1984
7.8
V
1983
7.5
The A-Team
1983
5.7
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982
6.0
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1982
7.6
Hill Street Blues
1981
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980
4.7
Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980
6.8
Coma
1978
6.3
The Love Boat
1977
6.8
CHiPs
1977
7.5
Three's Company
1977
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.3
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
1976
3.8
A*P*E
1976
7.1
Laverne & Shirley
1976
7.3
Starsky & Hutch
1975
6.6
Switch
1975
4.4
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975
6.3
Rhoda
1974
8.0
Emergency!
1972
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962