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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
Hunter
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
Emma's Wish
Blind Faith
Whose Daughter is She?
Production Credits
Suddenly Susan
FBI
One Tree Hill
Pretty Little Liars
Growing Pains
Army Wives
Switched at Birth
Light as a Feather
Titans
Scrubs
Chicago Med
Man with a Plan
Grey's Anatomy
Remember WENN
Ghost Whisperer
This Is Us
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Dawson's Creek
Beggars and Choosers
Clubhouse
Happy's Place
Psych
ER
That's Life
The Good Doctor
Jane the Virgin
Nashville
Clueless
Private Practice
WHAT / IF
Friends with Benefits
Hope and Gloria
Leap of Faith
Medium
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
Privileged
Ally McBeal
The Goldbergs
Judging Amy
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