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