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.
72 acting credits · 60 directing credits
Acting · 72
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Love Boat
1977
The A-Team
1983
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Hill Street Blues
1981
Charlie's Angels
1976
Chicago Hope
1994
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Hunter
1984
Emergency!
1972
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Three's Company
1977
Laverne & Shirley
1976
CHiPs
1977
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Rhoda
1974
Switch
1975
Growing Pains
1985
Less than Perfect
2002
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Hope and Gloria
1995
Street Hawk
1985
Eastwick
2009
Girl, Interrupted
1999
V
1983
Knocked Up
2007
Aliens in the Family
1996
Coma
1978
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Four Seasons
1984
She's Having a Baby
1988
Blind Faith
1990
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990
The Preppie Murder
1989
See Jane Run
1995
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985
Voices That Care
1991
A*P*E
1976
Sisters and Other Strangers
1997
All Over the Guy
2001
Shameful Secrets
1993
Cross My Heart
1987
The Growing Pains Movie
2000
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1982
Not in My Family
1993
Terror in the Family
1996
Deadly Intentions... Again?
1991
Stormin' Home
1985
Those She Left Behind
1989
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004
Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976
Mortal Fear
1994
A Bunny's Tale
1985
No One Could Protect Her
1996
Captive
1991
Mother Knows Best
1997
At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999
The Nightman
1992
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1984
The Man with Three Wives
1993
Whose Daughter is She?
1995
Emma's Wish
1998
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994
Street Justice
1987
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982
Love Struck
1986
Ain't It Funny
2017
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1989
Directing · 60
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Good Doctor
2017
FBI
2018
Medium
2005
Chicago Med
2015
Private Practice
2007
ER
1994
Psych
2006
One Tree Hill
2003
Scrubs
2001
Dawson's Creek
1998
Ghost Whisperer
2005
This Is Us
2016
Pretty Little Liars
2010
Judging Amy
1999
The Goldbergs
2013
Jane the Virgin
2014
Strong Medicine
2000
Army Wives
2007
Boston Public
2000
Switched at Birth
2011
The Division
2001
Felicity
1998
Fuller House
2016
Nashville
2012
Awkward.
2011
Ally McBeal
1997
Joan of Arcadia
2003
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015
Phil of the Future
2004
Growing Pains
1985
Man with a Plan
2016
Clueless
1996
Samantha Who?
2007
Suddenly Susan
1996
Chasing Life
2014
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
2019
Men in Trees
2006
Remember WENN
1996
Any Day Now
1998
Hope and Gloria
1995
Friends with Benefits
2011
Happy's Place
2024
Love Boat: The Next Wave
1998
WHAT / IF
2019
Light as a Feather
2018
That's Life
2000
Privileged
2008
Recovery Road
2016
The Baker and the Beauty
2020
Titans
2000
Related
2005
Notes from the Underbelly
2007
Clubhouse
2004
For the People
2002
Beggars and Choosers
1999
Leap of Faith
2002
The O'Keefes
2003
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
2003
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004