A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Joanna De Verona
Joanna DeVarona
Joanna Kearns
Joanne Crussie DeVarona
Joanne DeVarona
Joanne Kerns
Birthplace:
San Francisco, California, USA
Born:
February 12, 1953
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.
Associate Producer:
2017 Unrest
Co-Executive Producer:
1992 The Nightman
2017 Unrest
Director:
1992 The Nightman
2003 Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
2004 Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
2017 Unrest
Director:
1985 Growing Pains
1994 ER
1995 Hope and Gloria
1996 Clueless
1996 Remember WENN
1996 Suddenly Susan
1997 Ally McBeal
1998 Any Day Now
1998 Dawson's Creek
1998 Felicity
1998 Love Boat: The Next Wave
1999 Beggars and Choosers
1999 Judging Amy
2000 Boston Public
2000 Strong Medicine
2000 That's Life
2000 Titans
2001 Scrubs
2001 The Division
2002 Leap of Faith
2003 Joan of Arcadia
2003 One Tree Hill
2003 The O'Keefes
2004 Clubhouse
2004 Phil of the Future
2005 Ghost Whisperer
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2005 Medium
2005 Related
2006 Men in Trees
2006 Psych
2007 Army Wives
2007 Notes from the Underbelly
2007 Private Practice
2007 Samantha Who?
2008 Privileged
2010 Pretty Little Liars
2011 Awkward.
2011 Friends with Benefits
2011 Switched at Birth
2012 Nashville
2013 The Goldbergs
2014 Chasing Life
2014 Jane the Virgin
2015 Chicago Med
2015 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2016 Man with a Plan
2016 Recovery Road
2016 This Is Us
2017 The Good Doctor
2018 FBI
2018 Light as a Feather
2019 High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
2019 WHAT / IF
2020 The Baker and the Beauty
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
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