Joanna Kerns

Acting

Joanna Kerns

Born February 12, 1953 · San Francisco, California, USA (age 73)

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…

Known For

Knocked UpKnocked Up · 2007
Knocked Up
★ 6.32007
MovieComedyRomance
A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As they try to make the relationship work, they must navigate the challenges of parenthood and their differences in lifestyle and maturity.
Girl, InterruptedGirl, Interrupted · 1999
Girl, Interrupted
★ 7.61999
MovieDrama
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
She's Having a BabyShe's Having a Baby · 1988
She's Having a Baby
★ 5.91988
MovieComedyDrama
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Street JusticeStreet Justice · 1987
Street Justice
★ 7.01987
MovieActionDrama
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
ComaComa · 1978
Coma
★ 6.71978
MovieThrillerMystery
When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.
All Over the GuyAll Over the Guy · 2001
All Over the Guy
★ 5.82001
MovieComedyRomance
A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey StoryDefending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story · 2003
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story
★ 7.02003
MovieDrama
After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. · 1984
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
★ 9.01984
MovieTV Movie
Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in favor of being the hospital administrator, and his son who is now a doctor and who is currently treating and romancing a woman who has kidney problems. And one of his patients an expectant mother is in an accident along with her husband and her husband dies. She blames Mark and is refusing to bond with her new baby. And the hospital that he has been serving faithfully for years is considering letting some of their elderly staff members go and Mark is on top of the list.

Filmography

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Mortal FearMortal Fear · 1994
Mortal Fear
★ 5.51994
MovieThrillerTV Movie
Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can save countless lives, but when a crazed killer uses the same information to play God, millions are at risk. Dr. Jennifer Kessler is the one person who stands in the way of ultimate medical disaster. After witnessing one, then dozens of patients at her hospital mysteriously and unexpectedly die, her search for the truth leads her through a bizarre world of intrigue, passion and controversial secret medical research. As Dr. Kessler races against the clock to find a way to stop catastrophe, she finds herself up against an imposing and terrifying conspiracy implicating the entire U.S. insurance and medical system in the process.

Dr. Jennifer Kessler

Desperate Choices: To Save My ChildDesperate Choices: To Save My Child · 1992
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
★ 4.21992
MovieDramaTV Movie
Sixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and stepmother Mel and dotes on her six-year-old half-brother Willy. But her carefree, happy life is forever changed when she is diagnosed with leukeamia and her only hope of a cure lies in a bone-marrow transplant. However, when Willy proves to be a match, Mel is not-so-willing to allow her young son to undergo surgery as he nearly died the last time he was operated on after reacting badly to the anaesthetic. Mel and Richard now have to decide if it right to risk the life of one of their children to save the life of the other child. And of Willy's own rights in deciding if he should help the sister he hero-worships...?

Mel Robbins