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. Joanna Kerns(1953년생, San Francisco, California, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, The Preppie Murder, Shameful Secrets가 있으며, 그 외에도 조니 카슨의 투나잇 쇼, The Love Boat, A 특공대, Chicago Hope, Magnum, P.I., 미녀 삼총사, Hill Street Blues, Hunter, Quincy, M.E., Emergency!, Three's Company, Starsky & Hutch 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2024년 Love, Danielle 제작에 참여했다. 2024년 Happy's Place 연출을 맡았다. 2023년 Night Court 연출을 맡았다.