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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 12, 1953
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
- Joanne Crussie DeVarona
- Joanne Kerns
- Joanna Kearns
- Joanne DeVarona
- Joanna DeVarona
- Joanna De Verona
Joanna Kerns
1.1 Popularity
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
5.9
Eastwick
2009
6.3
Alison's Mom
Knocked Up
2007
5.8
Maggie Seaver
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004
🎬
6.1
Self
The Tony Danza Show
2004
6.9
Judy, Owen's Other Mom
Less than Perfect
2002
5.8
Lydia
All Over the Guy
2001
7.0
Maggie Seaver
The Growing Pains Movie
2000
7.6
Annette
Girl, Interrupted
1999
5.6
Elizabeth Cooper
At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999
3.8
Emma Bridges-Mame
Emma's Wish
1998
Credits
Eastwick
2009
5.9
Knocked Up
as Alison's Mom
2007
6.3
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
as Maggie Seaver
2004
5.8
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
Less than Perfect
as Judy, Owen's Other Mom
2002
6.9
All Over the Guy
as Lydia
2001
5.8
The Growing Pains Movie
as Maggie Seaver
2000
7.0
Girl, Interrupted
as Annette
1999
7.6
At the Mercy of a Stranger
as Elizabeth Cooper
1999
5.6
Emma's Wish
as Emma Bridges-Mame
1998
3.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
6.8
Sisters and Other Strangers
as Gail Connelly Metzger
1997
0.0
Mother Knows Best
as Celeste Cooper
1997
5.2
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Terror in the Family
as Cynthia Marten
1996
5.7
Aliens in the Family
as Self (voice)
1996
6.3
No One Could Protect Her
as Jessica Rayner
1996
4.6
Whose Daughter is She?
as Laura Eagerton
1995
4.8
Hope and Gloria
as Joanna Kerns
1995
5.0
See Jane Run
as Jane Ravenson
1995
6.5
Mortal Fear
as Dr. Jennifer Kessler
1994
4.8
Chicago Hope
1994
7.2
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
as Carol Cochran
1994
4.8
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Shameful Secrets
as Maryanne Walker-Tate
1993
4.8
The Man with Three Wives
as Katy
1993
0.0
Not in My Family
as Veronica Ricci
1993
4.4
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
as Mel Robbins
1992
4.8
The Nightman
as Eve
1992
1.0
Captive
as Kathy Plunk
1991
5.0
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
1991
8.0
Deadly Intentions... Again?
as Sally
1991
5.0
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Dr. Clare Winslow
1990
6.7
Blind Faith
as Maria Marshall
1990
5.5
The Preppie Murder
as Linda Fairstein
1989
5.8
Those She Left Behind
as Diane Pappas
1989
5.0
She's Having a Baby
as Joanna Kerns (uncredited)
1988
5.9
Cross My Heart
as Nancy
1987
5.1
Street Justice
as Catherine Watson
1987
0.0
Love Struck
1986
0.0
Growing Pains
as Maggie Seaver
1985
6.5
The Rape of Richard Beck
as Anita Parrish
1985
6.5
Stormin' Home
as Lana Singer
1985
0.0
A Bunny's Tale
as Andrea
1985
4.5
Street Hawk
as Mona Wiliams
1985
6.8
Hunter
as Dr. Kettering
1984
7.2
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Pamela Saletta
1984
0.0
🎬
The Four Seasons
1984
0.0
V
as Marjorie Donovan
1983
7.7
The A-Team
as Trish Brenner
1983
7.5
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
as Doris Marshall
1982
5.0
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
as Doris Marshall
1982
5.0
Hill Street Blues
1981
7.6
Magnum, P.I.
as Mary Kanfer
1980
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
as Jenny Hunter
1980
7.3
Marriage Is Alive and Well
as Meg
1980
0.0
Coma
as Diane
1978
6.7
The Love Boat
as Beth Luckner
1977
6.3
CHiPs
as Colleen
1977
6.8
Three's Company
as Bobby Trilling
1977
7.7
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
Charlie's Angels
as Natalie
1976
6.7
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
as Jessie
1976
6.0
A*P*E
as Marilyn Baker
1976
3.6
Laverne & Shirley
1976
7.2
Starsky & Hutch
1975
7.2
Switch
as Mae Brenner
1975
6.7
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
as Citizen (uncredited)
1975
4.0
Rhoda
1974
6.3
Emergency!
1972
7.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4