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.
Acted in
Eastwick
2009
Knocked Up
2007
as Alison's Mom
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004
as Maggie Seaver
Less than Perfect
2002
as Judy, Owen's Other Mom
All Over the Guy
2001
as Lydia
The Growing Pains Movie
2000
as Maggie Seaver
Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Annette
At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999
as Elizabeth Cooper
Emma's Wish
1998
as Emma Bridges-Mame
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Sisters and Other Strangers
1997
as Gail Connelly Metzger
Mother Knows Best
1997
as Celeste Cooper
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Terror in the Family
1996
as Cynthia Marten
Aliens in the Family
1996
as Self (voice)
No One Could Protect Her
1996
as Jessica Rayner
Whose Daughter is She?
1995
as Laura Eagerton
Hope and Gloria
1995
as Joanna Kerns
See Jane Run
1995
as Jane Ravenson
Mortal Fear
1994
as Dr. Jennifer Kessler
Chicago Hope
1994
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994
as Carol Cochran
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Shameful Secrets
1993
as Maryanne Walker-Tate
The Man with Three Wives
1993
as Katy
Not in My Family
1993
as Veronica Ricci
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992
as Mel Robbins
The Nightman
1992
as Eve
Captive
1991
as Kathy Plunk
Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
Deadly Intentions... Again?
1991
as Sally
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990
as Dr. Clare Winslow
Blind Faith
1990
as Maria Marshall
The Preppie Murder
1989
as Linda Fairstein
Those She Left Behind
1989
as Diane Pappas
She's Having a Baby
1988
as Joanna Kerns (uncredited)
Cross My Heart
1987
as Nancy
Street Justice
1987
as Catherine Watson
Love Struck
1986
Growing Pains
1985
as Maggie Seaver
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985
as Anita Parrish
Stormin' Home
1985
as Lana Singer
A Bunny's Tale
1985
as Andrea
Street Hawk
1985
as Mona Wiliams
Hunter
1984
as Dr. Kettering
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1984
as Pamela Saletta
The Four Seasons
1984
V
1983
as Marjorie Donovan
Ｖ
1983
as Marjorie Donovan
The A-Team
1983
as Trish Brenner
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982
as Doris Marshall
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1982
as Doris Marshall
Hill Street Blues
1981
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980
as Meg
Coma
1978
as Diane
The Love Boat
1977
as Beth Luckner
CHiPs
1977
as Colleen
Three's Company
1977
as Bobby Trilling
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976
as Jessie
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Natalie
A*P*E
1976
as Marilyn Baker
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Switch
1975
as Mae Brenner
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975
as Citizen (uncredited)
Rhoda
1974
Emergency!
1972