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Joanna Kerns
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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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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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Magnum, P.I.
E! True Hollywood Story
Starsky & Hutch
Chicago Hope
Hill Street Blues
Switch
Emergency!
Quincy, M.E.
The Love Boat
The A-Team
Three's Company
Laverne & Shirley
Charlie's Angels
CHiPs
Hope and Gloria
Rhoda
The Wonderful World of Disney
She's Having a Baby
V
Girl, Interrupted
Knocked Up
At the Mercy of a Stranger
The Man with Three Wives
Growing Pains
The Four Seasons
Whose Daughter is She?
Hunter
Blind Faith
Emma's Wish
Production Credits
Awkward.
The Goldbergs
The Good Doctor
Private Practice
Ally McBeal
Leap of Faith
Clueless
Scrubs
Man with a Plan
WHAT / IF
Strong Medicine
Hope and Gloria
Switched at Birth
Privileged
Growing Pains
Judging Amy
Remember WENN
Nashville
Suddenly Susan
Jane the Virgin
FBI
Light as a Feather
Pretty Little Liars
Titans
Happy's Place
Grey's Anatomy
This Is Us
Medium
Ghost Whisperer
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Army Wives
Friends with Benefits
Beggars and Choosers
Clubhouse
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
That's Life
Dawson's Creek
ER
Chicago Med
Psych
One Tree Hill
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