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Joanna Kerns
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 G…
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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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2024
Love, Danielle
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Happy's Place
TV show Director
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2023
Night Court
TV show Director
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2020
The Baker and the Beauty
TV show Director
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2019
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
TV show Director
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2019
WHAT / IF
TV show Director
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2018
Light as a Feather
TV show Director
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2018
FBI
TV show Director
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2017
Unrest
Movie Associate Producer
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2017
The Good Doctor
TV show Director
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2017
Ain't It Funny
Movie Mom
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2016
Man with a Plan
TV show Director
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2016
This Is Us
TV show Director
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2016
Fuller House
TV show Director
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2016
Recovery Road
TV show Director
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2015
Chicago Med
TV show Director
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2015
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
TV show Director
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2014
Jane the Virgin
TV show Director
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2014
Chasing Life
TV show Director
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2013
The Goldbergs
TV show Director
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2012
Nashville
TV show Director
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2011
Friends with Benefits
TV show Director
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2011
Awkward.
TV show Director
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2011
Switched at Birth
TV show Director
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2010
Pretty Little Liars
TV show Director
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2009
Eastwick
TV show Edie
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2008
Privileged
TV show Director
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2007
Samantha Who?
TV show Director
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2007
Private Practice
TV show Director
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2007
Army Wives
TV show Director
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2007
Knocked Up
Movie Alison's Mom
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2007
Notes from the Underbelly
TV show Director
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2006
Men in Trees
TV show Director
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2006
Psych
TV show Director
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2005
Related
TV show Director
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2005
Ghost Whisperer
TV show Director
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2005
Grey's Anatomy
TV show Director
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2005
Medium
TV show Director
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2004
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Movie Maggie Seaver
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2004
Clubhouse
TV show Director
