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Joanne Crussie DeVarona, Joanne Kerns, Joanna Kearns, Joanne DeVarona, Joanna DeVarona, Joanna De Verona
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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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1953-02-12
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 5.9
- info Birth Place San Francisco, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Joanna Kerns
5.9
All Over the Guy
2001-08-10
0
Love Struck
1986-01-01
6.7
Coma
1978-01-06
3.7
A*P*E
1976-07-23
8
Voices That Care
1991-02-28
8
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982-05-02
4.8
Shameful Secrets
1993-10-10
6.5
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985-05-27
6.7
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990-11-11
5.2
Not in My Family
1993-02-28
0
Street Justice
1987-01-01
0
The Man with Three Wives
1993-03-28
6.7
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004-10-16
7
The Growing Pains Movie
2000-11-04
6.3
Terror in the Family
1996-04-16
6
Mother Knows Best
1997-04-13
6
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976-09-22
5.8
Mortal Fear
1994-11-20
6
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994-07-27
0
Sisters and Other Strangers
1997-05-06
5
Deadly Intentions... Again?
1991-02-11
8
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1982-02-02
0
Stormin' Home
1985-04-05
4.5
No One Could Protect Her
1996-02-11
5
Whose Daughter is She?
1995-09-24
0
Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980-01-25
5
Captive
1991-10-11
5.8
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992-10-05
6.2
See Jane Run
1995-01-08
5
Those She Left Behind
1989-03-06
1
The Nightman
1992-02-08
6
The Preppie Murder
1989-09-24
4.5
A Bunny's Tale
1985-02-25
3.8
Emma's Wish
1998-10-18
5.9
She's Having a Baby
1988-02-05
7.6
Girl, Interrupted
1999-12-21
7.5
At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999-11-03
5.1
Cross My Heart
1987-12-13
4
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975-02-21
6.3
Knocked Up
2007-06-01
0
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1984-05-16
6.5
Growing Pains
1985-09-24
6.9
Less than Perfect
2002-10-01
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980-12-11
6.8
CHiPs
1977-09-15
6.1
The Tony Danza Show
2004-09-13
6.2
Rhoda
1974-09-09
7.5
The A-Team
1983-01-23
7.3
Starsky & Hutch
1975-09-10
6.3
The Love Boat
1977-09-24
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976-10-03
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21
6.7
Charlie's Angels
1976-09-22
7.6
Hill Street Blues
1981-01-15
7.2
Laverne & Shirley
1976-01-27
7.7
Three's Company
1977-03-15
7.8
Emergency!
1972-01-22
7.2
Hunter
1984-09-18
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994-09-18
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993-11-14
6.7
Switch
1975-09-09
6.3
Aliens in the Family
1996-03-15
0
The Four Seasons
1984-01-29
6.7
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997-09-28
6
Eastwick
2009-09-23
5.5
Blind Faith
1990-02-11
7.7
V
1983-05-01
6.9
Street Hawk
1985-01-04
5
Hope and Gloria
1995-03-09
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5
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
2003-07-23
5
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004-10-16
5
Unrest
2017-10-20
5
The Nightman
1992-02-08
5
Love, Danielle
2024-10-19
5
Medium
2005-01-03
5
Growing Pains
1985-09-24
5
Titans
2000-10-04
5
Boston Public
2000-10-23
5
One Tree Hill
2003-09-23
5
Notes from the Underbelly
2007-04-12
5
Men in Trees
2006-09-12
5
Private Practice
2007-09-26
5
Army Wives
2007-06-03
5
Privileged
2008-09-09
5
Any Day Now
1998-08-18
5
Love Boat: The Next Wave
1998-04-13
5
Related
2005-10-05
5
Clubhouse
2004-09-26
5
Clueless
1996-09-20
5
Judging Amy
1999-09-19
5
Leap of Faith
2002-02-28
5
Suddenly Susan
1996-09-19
5
Hope and Gloria
1995-03-09
5
Remember WENN
1996-01-13
5
The Division
2001-01-07
5
The O'Keefes
2003-05-22
5
Grey's Anatomy
2005-03-27
5
Dawson's Creek
1998-01-20
5
Psych
2006-07-07
5
Strong Medicine
2000-07-23
5
Ally McBeal
1997-09-08
5
Scrubs
2001-10-02
5
Beggars and Choosers
1999-06-19
5
Phil of the Future
2004-06-18
5
ER
1994-09-19
5
Joan of Arcadia
2003-09-26
5
Ghost Whisperer
2005-09-23
5
Samantha Who?
2007-10-15
5
Felicity
1998-09-29
5
That's Life
2000-10-01
5
Nashville
2012-10-10
5
Pretty Little Liars
2010-06-08
5
Switched at Birth
2011-06-06
5
Awkward.
2011-07-19
5
Jane the Virgin
2014-10-13
5
Recovery Road
2016-01-25
5
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015-10-12
5
This Is Us
2016-09-20
5
The Goldbergs
2013-09-24
5
The Good Doctor
2017-09-25
5
Chasing Life
2014-06-10
5
The Baker and the Beauty
2020-04-13
5
Light as a Feather
2018-10-12
5
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
2019-11-12
5
Man with a Plan
2016-10-24
5
Friends with Benefits
2011-08-05
5
FBI
2018-09-25
5
WHAT / IF
2019-05-24
5
Chicago Med
2015-11-17
5
Happy's Place
2024-10-18