Joanna Kerns
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.
Known for
The Love Boat
Beth Luckner
Magnum, P.I.
Mary Kanfer
Magnum, P.I.
Jenny Hunter
The A-Team
Trish Brenner
Chicago Hope
Stephanie Serone
Hill Street Blues
Charlie's Angels
Natalie
Quincy, M.E.
Emergency!
Starsky & Hutch
Intimate Portrait
Self
Three's Company
Bobby Trilling
Laverne & Shirley
Hunter
Dr. Kettering
The Wonderful World of Disney
Rhoda
Switch
Mae Brenner
Growing Pains
Maggie Seaver
Less than Perfect
Judy, Owen's Other Mom
V
Marjorie Donovan
CHiPs
Colleen
Hope and Gloria
Joanna Kerns
No One Could Protect Her
Jessica Rayner
Girl, Interrupted
Annette
Street Hawk
Mona Wiliams
Eastwick
Edie
Knocked Up
Alison's Mom
A*P*E
Marilyn Baker
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Mel Robbins
Aliens in the Family
Self (voice)
Marriage Is Alive and Well
Meg
Deadly Intentions... Again?
Sally
E! True Hollywood Story
The Nightman
Eve
Coma
Diane
The Four Seasons
Pat Devon
She's Having a Baby
Joanna Kerns (uncredited)
Love Struck
Blind Faith
Maria Marshall
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Citizen (uncredited)
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
The Preppie Murder
Linda Fairstein
All Over the Guy
Lydia
Mother Knows Best
Celeste Cooper
See Jane Run
Jane Ravenson
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Dr. Clare Winslow
Emma's Wish
Emma Bridges-Mame
Terror in the Family
Cynthia Marten
Captive
Kathy Plunk
The Rape of Richard Beck
Anita Parrish
Mortal Fear
Dr. Jennifer Kessler
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
Jessie
The Growing Pains Movie
Maggie Seaver
Shameful Secrets
Maryanne Walker-Tate
Sisters and Other Strangers
Gail Connelly Metzger
A Bunny's Tale
Andrea
Street Justice
Catherine Watson
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Maggie Seaver
At the Mercy of a Stranger
Elizabeth Cooper
Stormin' Home
Lana Singer
Those She Left Behind
Diane Pappas
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
Doris Marshall
Cross My Heart
Nancy
Not in My Family
Veronica Ricci
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
Pamela Saletta
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
Doris Marshall
The Man with Three Wives
Katy
Whose Daughter is She?
Laura Eagerton
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
Carol Cochran
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
Self
Ain't It Funny
Mom
The Tony Danza Show
Self