Joanna Kerns

Joanna Kerns

Birthday: 1953-02-12

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Also known as: Joanne Crussie DeVarona, Joanne Kerns, Joanna Kearns, Joanne DeVarona, Joanna DeVarona, Joanna De Verona

imdb_id: nm0005088

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.

Played in movies:

Voices That Care

Score: 8.0

Girl, Interrupted

Score: 7.6

The Growing Pains Movie

Score: 7.0

Coma

Score: 6.8

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

Score: 6.7

Those She Left Behind

Score: 6.7

See Jane Run

Score: 6.5

The Rape of Richard Beck

Score: 6.5

Knocked Up

Score: 6.3

Terror in the Family

Score: 6.1

The Million Dollar Rip-Off

Score: 6.0

She's Having a Baby

Score: 5.9

The Preppie Murder

Score: 5.8

Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers

Score: 5.8

Shameful Secrets

Score: 5.8

All Over the Guy

Score: 5.8

At the Mercy of a Stranger

Score: 5.6

Mother Knows Best

Score: 5.2

Cross My Heart

Score: 5.1

Captive

Score: 5.0

A Wedding on Waltons Mountain

Score: 5.0

Deadly Intentions... Again?

Score: 5.0

Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain

Score: 5.0

Whose Daughter is She?

Score: 4.8

Mortal Fear

Score: 4.8

No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn

Score: 4.8

No One Could Protect Her

Score: 4.6

A Bunny's Tale

Score: 4.5

Not in My Family

Score: 4.4

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!

Score: 4.0

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child

Score: 3.9

Emma's Wish

Score: 3.8

A*P*E

Score: 3.6

Marriage Is Alive and Well

Score: 2.0

The Nightman

Score: 1.0

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 0.0

Stormin' Home

Score: 0.0

Sisters and Other Strangers

Score: 0.0

The Man with Three Wives

Score: 0.0

Street Justice

Score: 0.0

Love Struck

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Emergency!

Score: 7.8

V

Score: 7.7

Three's Company

Score: 7.7

Hill Street Blues

Score: 7.6

The A-Team

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Magnum, P.I.

Score: 7.3

Magnum, P.I.

Score: 7.3

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

Hunter

Score: 7.2

Laverne & Shirley

Score: 7.2

Starsky & Hutch

Score: 7.2

Less than Perfect

Score: 6.9

CHiPs

Score: 6.8

Street Hawk

Score: 6.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 6.7

Switch

Score: 6.7

Charlie's Angels

Score: 6.7

Growing Pains

Score: 6.5

Aliens in the Family

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

Rhoda

Score: 6.2

The Tony Danza Show

Score: 6.1

Eastwick

Score: 5.9

Blind Faith

Score: 5.5

Hope and Gloria

Score: 5.0

Intimate Portrait

Score: 4.5

The Four Seasons

Score: 0.0