Joanna Kerns
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.
Girl, Interrupted
as AnnetteSet in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a...
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Knocked Up
as Alison's MomA slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As...
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She's Having a Baby
as Joanna Kerns (uncredited)Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the...
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Coma
as DianeA young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy...
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All Over the Guy
as LydiaA contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown...
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Whose Daughter is She?
as Laura EagertonTwo mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.
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A*P*E
as Marilyn BakerA newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same...
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Mother Knows Best
as Celeste CooperA woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that...
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
as Citizen (uncredited)TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his...
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The Growing Pains Movie
as Maggie SeaverWhen the Seaver family reunites in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Jason and Maggie's 30th...
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Dr. Clare WinslowAfter a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist,...
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The Rape of Richard Beck
as Anita ParrishThe tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two...
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Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
as Maggie SeaverJason and Maggie Seaver are ready to start a new chapter in their lives. The nest is finally...
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Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
as Mel RobbinsSixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and...
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The Man with Three Wives
as KatyA married doctor marries two other women and juggles a life with three wives.
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A Bunny's Tale
as AndreaA dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies...
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Captive
as Kathy PlunkPaul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound...
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Mortal Fear
as Dr. Jennifer KesslerBased on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that...
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Deadly Intentions... Again?
as SallyA doctor was sent to prison for the attempted murder of his first wife. When he is released, he...
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Terror in the Family
as Cynthia MartenFifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she can't...
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See Jane Run
as Jane RavensonJane Ravenson finds herself in the middle of a grocery store with $10,000 in her coat pockets...
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No One Could Protect Her
as Jessica RaynerFact-based drama about a smalltown rape victim who helps the police trap her attacker who has...
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Cross My Heart
as NancyA man and a woman go out on a "big" third date. He's ashamed to admit he just lost his job, and...
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Stormin' Home
as Lana SingerAn aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and...
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Not in My Family
as Veronica RicciVeronica Ricci is bombarded by strange feelings and fleeting involuntary memories about her...
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The Nightman
as EveA drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.
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Those She Left Behind
as Diane PappasScott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a...
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The Million Dollar Rip-Off
as JessieAn electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal...
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A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
as Doris MarshallErin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left...
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Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
as Doris MarshallMary Ellen marries Jonesy but they don't exactly have a good start.
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Shameful Secrets
as Maryanne Walker-TateA woman and her children seemingly live the idyllic suburban dream, but unbeknownst to their...
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Street Justice
as Catherine WatsonA forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
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At the Mercy of a Stranger
as Elizabeth CooperWhen Thomas, a prominent doctor, hires a hitman to murder his wife, Elizabeth, the hitman...
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
as MegA talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of...
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Love Struck
as uncreditedLove Struck is a 1986 short film directed by Richard Masur, starring John Simon Jones and Judge...
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Emma's Wish
as Emma Bridges-MameA lonely retirement home resident obtains a magical ring on her 75th birthday which grants her...
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Sisters and Other Strangers
as Gail Connelly MetzgerA woman (Joanna Kerns), at odds with her eccentric sister (Debrah Farentino) over a real-estate...
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The Preppie Murder
as Linda FairsteinThis is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence...
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Voices That Care
as Self - Choir MemberBehind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
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The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Pamela SalettaMarcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an...
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No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn
as Carol CochranA couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to...
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The A-Team
as Trish BrennerA fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune...
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Magnum, P.I.
as uncreditedA private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a...
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Quincy, M.E.
as uncreditedLos Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
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The Love Boat
as Beth LucknerPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
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Charlie's Angels
as NatalieBeautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could...
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Chicago Hope
as uncreditedChicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran...
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Starsky & Hutch
as uncreditedStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...
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Emergency!
as uncreditedThe crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...
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Three's Company
as Bobby TrillingThree's Company is an American television sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March...
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Hill Street Blues
as uncreditedA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Switch
as Mae BrennerSwitch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...
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Intimate Portrait
as SelfIntimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network...
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Rhoda
as uncreditedRhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over...
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Hunter
as Dr. KetteringHunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred...
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V
as Marjorie DonovanFifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The...
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Laverne & Shirley
as uncreditedLaverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May...
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Growing Pains
as Maggie SeaverFatherhood has taken on a whole new meaning for Jason Seaver, who has assumed the chores of...
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CHiPs
as ColleenLighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...
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Street Hawk
as Mona WiliamsStreet Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The...
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The Wonderful World of Disney
as uncreditedWalt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television...
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Less than Perfect
as Judy, Owen's Other MomClaude Casey moved up in the secretarial world of television news, from temp to the anchor's...
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Eastwick
as uncreditedThree very different women find themselves drawn together by a mysterious man who unleashes...
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Hope and Gloria
as Joanna KernsHope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from...
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Aliens in the Family
as Self (voice)A human single father is abducted by a spaceship and fall in love with an alien single mother....
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E! True Hollywood Story
as uncreditedE! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood...
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Blind Faith
as Maria MarshallSuccessful insurance salesman Rob Marshall, his bright and devoted wife Maria, and their three...
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