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.
All Over the Guy
(Lydia)
Love Struck
Coma
(Diane)
A*P*E
(Marilyn Baker)
Voices That Care
(Self - Choir Member)
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
(Doris Marshall)
Shameful Secrets
(Maryanne Walker-Tate)
The Rape of Richard Beck
(Anita Parrish)
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
(Dr. Clare Winslow)
Not in My Family
(Veronica Ricci)
Street Justice
(Catherine Watson)
The Man with Three Wives
(Katy)
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
(Maggie Seaver)
The Growing Pains Movie
(Maggie Seaver)
Terror in the Family
(Cynthia Marten)
Mother Knows Best
(Celeste Cooper)
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
(Jessie)
Mortal Fear
(Dr. Jennifer Kessler)
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
(Carol Cochran)
Sisters and Other Strangers
(Gail Connelly Metzger)
Deadly Intentions... Again?
(Sally)
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
(Doris Marshall)
Stormin' Home
(Lana Singer)
No One Could Protect Her
(Jessica Rayner)
Whose Daughter is She?
(Laura Eagerton)
Marriage Is Alive and Well
(Meg)
Captive
(Kathy Plunk)
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
(Mel Robbins)
See Jane Run
(Jane Ravenson)
Those She Left Behind
(Diane Pappas)
The Nightman
(Eve)
The Preppie Murder
(Linda Fairstein)
A Bunny's Tale
(Andrea)
Emma's Wish
(Emma Bridges-Mame)
She's Having a Baby
(Joanna Kerns (uncredited))
Girl, Interrupted
(Annette)
At the Mercy of a Stranger
(Elizabeth Cooper)
Cross My Heart
(Nancy)
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
(Citizen (uncredited))
Knocked Up
(Alison's Mom)
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
(Pamela Saletta)
Growing Pains
(Maggie Seaver)
Less than Perfect
(Judy, Owen's Other Mom)
Magnum, P.I.
CHiPs
(Colleen)
The Tony Danza Show
(Self)
Rhoda
Starsky & Hutch
The A-Team
(Trish Brenner)
The Love Boat
(Beth Luckner)
Quincy, M.E.
E! True Hollywood Story
Charlie's Angels
(Natalie)
Hill Street Blues
Laverne & Shirley
Three's Company
(Bobby Trilling)
Emergency!
Hunter
(Dr. Kettering)
Chicago Hope
Intimate Portrait
(Self)
Switch
(Mae Brenner)
Aliens in the Family
(Self (voice))
The Four Seasons
The Wonderful World of Disney
Eastwick
Blind Faith
(Maria Marshall)
V
(Marjorie Donovan)
Street Hawk
(Mona Wiliams)
Ｖ
(Marjorie Donovan)
Hope and Gloria
(Joanna Kerns)
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
(Director)
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
(Director)
Unrest
(Associate Producer)
The Nightman
(Co-Executive Producer)
Love, Danielle
(Executive Producer)
Medium
(Director)
Growing Pains
(Director)
Titans
(Director)
Boston Public
(Director)
One Tree Hill
(Director)
Notes from the Underbelly
(Director)
Men in Trees
(Director)
Private Practice
(Director)
Army Wives
(Director)
Privileged
(Director)
Any Day Now
(Director)
Love Boat: The Next Wave
(Director)
Related
(Director)
Clubhouse
(Director)
Clueless
(Director)
Leap of Faith
(Director)
Judging Amy
(Director)
Suddenly Susan
(Director)
Hope and Gloria
(Director)
Remember WENN
(Director)
The Division
(Director)
The O'Keefes
(Director)
Grey's Anatomy
(Director)
Dawson's Creek
(Director)
Psych
(Director)
Strong Medicine
(Director)
Ally McBeal
(Director)
Scrubs
(Director)
Beggars and Choosers
(Director)
Phil of the Future
(Director)
ER
(Director)
Ghost Whisperer
(Director)
Joan of Arcadia
(Director)
Samantha Who?
(Director)
Felicity
(Director)
That's Life
(Director)
Nashville
(Director)
Pretty Little Liars
(Director)
Switched at Birth
(Director)
Jane the Virgin
(Director)
Awkward.
(Director)
Recovery Road
(Director)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
(Director)
This Is Us
(Director)
The Goldbergs
(Director)
The Good Doctor
(Director)
Chasing Life
(Director)
The Baker and the Beauty
(Director)
Light as a Feather
(Director)
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
(Director)
Man with a Plan
(Director)
Friends with Benefits
(Director)
FBI
(Director)
WHAT / IF
(Director)
Chicago Med
(Director)
Happy's Place
(Director)