Name
Joanna Kerns
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1953-02-12 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
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
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Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from...
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A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand....
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Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for t...
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After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, p...
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The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by tw...
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Fifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she c...
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When the Seaver family reunites in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Jason and Maggie's 30th w...
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A man and a woman go out on a "big" third date. He's ashamed to admit he just lost his job...
- 2001 All Over the Guy as Lydia
- 1986 Love Struck
- 1978 Coma as Diane
- 1976 A*P*E as Marilyn Baker
- 1991 Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- 1982 Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain as Doris Marshall
- 1993 Shameful Secrets as Maryanne Walker-Tate
- 1985 The Rape of Richard Beck as Anita Parrish
- 1990 The Great Los Angeles Earthquake as Dr. Clare Winslow
- 1993 Not in My Family as Veronica Ricci
- 1993 The Man with Three Wives as Katy
- 1987 Street Justice as Catherine Watson
- 2000 The Growing Pains Movie as Maggie Seaver
- 2004 Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers as Maggie Seaver
- 1996 Terror in the Family as Cynthia Marten
- 1997 Mother Knows Best as Celeste Cooper
- 1976 The Million Dollar Rip-Off as Jessie
- 1994 Mortal Fear as Dr. Jennifer Kessler
- 1994 No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn as Carol Cochran
- 1997 Sisters and Other Strangers as Gail Connelly Metzger
- 1991 Deadly Intentions... Again? as Sally
- 1982 A Wedding on Waltons Mountain as Doris Marshall
- 1985 Stormin' Home as Lana Singer
- 1996 No One Could Protect Her as Jessica Rayner
- 1995 Whose Daughter is She? as Laura Eagerton
- 1980 Marriage Is Alive and Well as Meg
- 1991 Captive as Kathy Plunk
- 1992 Desperate Choices: To Save My Child as Mel Robbins
- 1995 See Jane Run as Jane Ravenson
- 1989 Those She Left Behind as Diane Pappas
- 1992 The Nightman as Eve
- 1989 The Preppie Murder as Linda Fairstein
- 1985 A Bunny's Tale as Andrea
- 1998 Emma's Wish as Emma Bridges-Mame
- 1988 She's Having a Baby as Joanna Kerns (uncredited)
- 1999 Girl, Interrupted as Annette
- 1999 At the Mercy of a Stranger as Elizabeth Cooper
- 1987 Cross My Heart as Nancy
- 1975 It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! as Citizen (uncredited)
- 2007 Knocked Up as Alison's Mom
- 1984 The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. as Pamela Saletta
- 1989 Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade as Self
- 2017 Ain't It Funny as Mom
- 1987 Mistress as Stephanie
- 1985 Growing Pains ( 162 episodes ) as Maggie Seaver
- 2002 Less than Perfect ( 2 episodes ) as Judy, Owen's Other Mom
- 1980 Magnum, P.I. ( 1 episode ) as Mary Kanfer
- 1977 CHiPs ( 1 episode ) as Colleen
- 2004 The Tony Danza Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1974 Rhoda ( 1 episode )
- 1975 Starsky & Hutch ( 1 episode )
- 1983 The A-Team ( 1 episode ) as Trish Brenner
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 1 episode ) as Beth Luckner
- 1976 Quincy, M.E. ( 1 episode )
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
- 1976 Charlie's Angels ( 1 episode ) as Natalie
- 1981 Hill Street Blues ( 1 episode )
- 1976 Laverne & Shirley ( 1 episode )
- 1977 Three's Company ( 2 episodes ) as Bobby Trilling
- 1972 Emergency! ( 1 episode )
- 1984 Hunter ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Kettering
- 1994 Chicago Hope ( 2 episodes ) as Stephanie Serone
- 1993 Intimate Portrait ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Switch ( 1 episode ) as Mae Brenner
- 1996 Aliens in the Family ( 1 episode ) as Self (voice)
- 1984 The Four Seasons ( 13 episodes ) as Pat Devon
- 1997 The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1 episode )
- 2009 Eastwick ( 1 episode ) as Edie
- 1990 Blind Faith ( 2 episodes ) as Maria Marshall
- 1983 V ( 2 episodes ) as Marjorie Donovan
- 1985 Street Hawk ( 1 episode ) as Mona Wiliams
- 1995 Hope and Gloria ( 1 episode ) as Joanna Kerns
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1980 Magnum, P.I. ( 1 episode ) as Jenny Hunter
