Joanna Kerns

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Joanna Kerns (* 12 February 1953 in San Francisco , California as Joanna Crussie DeVarona ) is an American film and television actress and director . She is known to German audiences from the series Our loud home .

Life

Joanna Kerns was born Joanne Crussie DaVarona in San Francisco , the daughter of Martha Louise Smith, a clothing store manager, and David Thomas DaVarona, an insurance salesman . She is of Mexican and Irish-American descent. Joanna's sister is the former Olympic swimmer Donna de Varona . This won two gold medals in Tokyo in 1964. Her aunt is the well-known silent film actress Miriam Cooper . She also has two brothers named David and Kurt.

Kerns has been married to Marc Appleton for the second time since 1994. From her first marriage to Richard Kerns (married from 1976 to 1984) the daughter Ashley Cooper Kerns emerged.

Career

Joanna Kerns played in numerous film and television productions in her career. Her best-known role in Germany is that of Maggie Malone Seaver in the sitcom Unser lautes Heim , which ran from 1985 to 1992 on ABC in the USA and was broadcast in Germany on ProSieben from 1993. Kerns plays the role of mother at the side of Alan Thicke , who cares for the children Mike ( Kirk Cameron ), Carol ( Tracey Gold ) and Benjamin ( Jeremy Miller ). Later, the young Leonardo DiCaprio also joins the family in his first role. The series was last broadcast in 2003 on the pay-TV channel Premiere .

In addition, she was in many films, e.g. B. in Crazy and The First Time , and seen as a guest actor in several television series, z. B. Quincy and Chicago Hope - End of the Line Hope .

Kerns also works as a director of individual episodes in well-known series. Scrubs , Grey's Anatomy, and Psych are just a few examples.

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

  • 1976: A * P * E
  • 1976: The Million Dollar Rip-Off (Movie)
  • 1976: Starsky & Hutch (an episode)
  • 1977: Rhoda (an episode)
  • 1977: Emergency Call California ( Emergency ! , one episode)
  • 1977: Charlie's Angels ( Charlie's Angels , a series)
  • 1977: Love Boat ( The Love Boat , an episode)
  • 1977: Quincy ( Quincy, ME , an episode)
  • 1978: Coma
  • 1978: The two with the turn ( Switch , one episode)
  • 1980: Marriage Is Alive and Well (TV movie)
  • 1980: I'm a Big Girl Now (an episode)
  • 1980, 1983: Jack of Hearts with Two Ladies ( Three's Company , 2 episodes)
  • 1981: CHiPs (an episode)
  • 1982: The Waltons: A Wedding on Walton's Mountain (Movie made for TV)
  • 1982: Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain (TV movie)
  • 1982: Star of the Family (an episode)
  • 1982–1983: Magnum ( Magnum, pi , 2 episodes)
  • 1983: Laverne & Shirley (an episode)
  • 1983: V (TV movie)
  • 1983: The A-Team ( The A-Team , an episode)
  • 1983: Computer Kids ( Whiz Kids , an episode)
  • 1984: Hill Street Police Station ( Hill Street Blues , an episode)
  • 1984: Chief Physician Dr. Welby ( The Return of Marcus Welby, MD , Movie made for TV)
  • 1984: The Four Seasons (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1984: Hunter (an episode)
  • 1985: My Life as Bunny ( A Bunny's Tale , TV movie)
  • 1985: Street Hawk (an episode)
  • 1985: Stormin 'Home (TV movie)
  • 1985: Rape of Richard Beck ( The Rape of Richard Beck , Movie made for TV)
  • 1985–1992: Our Loud Home ( Growing Pains , 166 episodes)
  • 1987: Street Justice
  • 1987: Mistress on Demand ( Mistress , TV movie)
  • 1987: what now? (Cross My Heart)
  • 1988: Inspector Hooperman ( Hooperman , an episode)
  • 1989: Don't Forsake Me, Daddy ( Those She Left Behind , Movie made for TV)
  • 1989: Murder without a motive ( The Preppie Murder , TV movie)
  • 1990: Murder According to a Plan ( Blind Faith , two-part TV)
  • 1990: The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake , Movie made for TV
  • 1991: Deadly Intent ( Deadly Intentions ... Again? , TV movie)
  • 1991: Under the spell of the kidnapper ( captive , TV film)
  • 1991: An American Summer
  • 1992: Das Hotel am See ( The Nightman , TV movie)
  • 1992: The Price of Life ( Desperate Choices: To Save My Child , TV movie)
  • 1993: Abused ( Not in My Family , TV movie)
  • 1993: Blind Love ( The Man with Three Wives , Movie made for TV)
  • 1993: Shameful Secrets (TV movie)
  • 1994: No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn
  • 1994: The Doctor and the Killer ( Mortal Fear , TV movie)
  • 1995: Run, Jane run! ( See Jane Run , TV movie)
  • 1995: The Mommies ( The Mommies , an episode)
  • 1995: Give Me My Children Back ( Whose Daughter Is She?, Movie made for TV)
  • 1996: Delivered defenseless (No One Could Protect Her)
  • 1996: Terror in the Family - A Daughter Runs Amok ( Terror in the Family , TV movie)
  • 1997: Murder motif: Mutterliebe ( Mother Knows Best , TV movie)
  • 1997: Bloody Legacy ( Sisters and Other Strangers , Movie made for TV)
  • 1998: The Closer (3 episodes)
  • 1998: Chicago Hope - End of the Line Hope ( ER , 2 episodes)
  • 1998: Emma's Wish (TV movie)
  • 1999: Beggars and Choosers (an episode)
  • 1999: At the Mercy of a Stranger (TV movie)
  • 1999: Crazy (Girl, Interrupted)
  • 2000: Our Loud Home - The Film ( The Growing Pains Movie )
  • 2001: All Over the Guy
  • 2001: Someone to Love (TV movie)
  • 2002: The Education of Max Bickford (an episode)
  • 2003–2004: Office Girl (2 episodes)
  • 2004: Our Loud Home - The Return of the Seavers ( Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers , TV movie)
  • 2007: The first time (Knocked Up)
  • 2007: MaNiC (short film)
  • 2009: Eastwick (an episode)
  • 2010: Love & Other Unstable States of Matter (short film)

As a director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Kerns, Joanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeVarona, Joanna Crussie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California , United States