Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 12, 1953
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Credits
132 titles
Joanna Kerns
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
Filmography
Love, Danielle
Executive Producer
Happy's Place
Director
The Baker and the Beauty
Director
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Director
WHAT / IF
Director
Light as a Feather
Director
FBI
Director
Unrest
Associate Producer
The Good Doctor
Director
Ain't It Funny
Mom
Man with a Plan
Director
This Is Us
Director
Fuller House
Director
Recovery Road
Director
Chicago Med
Director
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Director
Jane the Virgin
Director
Chasing Life
Director
The Goldbergs
Director
Nashville
Director
Friends with Benefits
Director
Awkward.
Director
Switched at Birth
Director
Pretty Little Liars
Director
Eastwick
Edie
Privileged
Director
Samantha Who?
Director
Private Practice
Director
Army Wives
Director
Knocked Up
Alison's Mom
Notes from the Underbelly
Director
Men in Trees
Director
Psych
Director
Related
Director
Ghost Whisperer
Director
Grey's Anatomy
Director
Medium
Director
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Maggie Seaver
Clubhouse
Director
The Tony Danza Show
Self
Phil of the Future
Director
Joan of Arcadia
Director
One Tree Hill
Director
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
Director
The O'Keefes
Director
Less than Perfect
Judy, Owen's Other Mom
For the People
Director
Leap of Faith
Director
Scrubs
Director
All Over the Guy
Lydia