1953-02-12 ( 72 years old ) in San Francisco, California, USA
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.
Movies
Knocked Up
2007-06-01
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2004-10-16
All Over the Guy
2001-08-10
The Growing Pains Movie
2000-11-04
Girl, Interrupted
1999-12-21
At the Mercy of a Stranger
1999-11-03
Emma's Wish
1998-10-18
Sisters and Other Strangers
1997-05-06
Mother Knows Best
1997-04-13
Terror in the Family
1996-04-16
No One Could Protect Her
1996-02-11
Whose Daughter is She?
1995-09-24
See Jane Run
1995-01-08
Mortal Fear
1994-11-20
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
1994-07-27
Shameful Secrets
1993-10-10
The Man with Three Wives
1993-03-28
Not in My Family
1993-02-28
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
1992-10-05
The Nightman
1992-02-08
Captive
1991-10-11
Voices That Care
1991-02-28
Deadly Intentions... Again?
1991-02-11
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990-11-11
The Preppie Murder
1989-09-24
Those She Left Behind
1989-03-06
She's Having a Baby
1988-02-05
Cross My Heart
1987-12-13
Street Justice
1987-01-01
Love Struck
1986-01-01
The Rape of Richard Beck
1985-05-27
Stormin' Home
1985-04-05
A Bunny's Tale
1985-02-25
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
1984-05-16
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982-05-02
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1982-02-02
Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980-01-25
Coma
1978-01-06
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
1976-09-22
A*P*E
1976-07-23
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
1975-02-21
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