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