‘Growing Pains’ Cast: Where Are They Now?
All about the Seavers! Alan Thicke, Kirk Cameron and their Growing Pains costars brought to life a TV family worth loving.
Thicke (Dr. Jason Seaver), Cameron (Mike Seaver), Joanna Kerns (Maggie Seaver), Tracey Gold (Carol Seaver), Jeremy Miller (Ben Seaver) and Ashley Johnson (Chrissy Seaver) portrayed the sitcom clan. The show ran from September 1985 to April 1992, over seven seasons and 166 episodes.
The cast had a special bond — especially Thicke and his fictional children, who paid tribute to the How I Met Your Mother alum after his death at 69 following a heart attack in December 2016.
“We were a family,” Cameron told Today.com after Thicke’s death. “We laughed and cried together, shared birthday celebrations, Christmas parties, holidays and worked together with the crew as a team to make a really special TV show. We weren’t just a TV family. In many ways, we were a real family.”
Cameron applauded his onscreen father’s presence at the time. “Alan was … a seasoned dad through and through,” he noted. “He was always available on set and off to talk with me, to listen and understand, to give advice, calm my teenage nerves and even share my excitement when something great happened … just like a good dad.”
He continued: “In an ever-changing world, my friendship with Alan was always a constant. Meeting up with Alan, even after years had passed since we’d seen each other — we’d just pick up the conversation where we’d left off.”
Gold paid similar respects to Thicke in February 2018 when she reunited with Cameron and Miller on the Today show. “It’s still surreal. It’s still hard to grasp, and when we’re together, it is a reminder,” she said. “Alan was kind of the constant in all of our lives. … Alan always kept in touch with all of us. He’s deeply missed.”
Miller agreed with his former costars. “What I miss the most is just being able to call him about anything. I mean, that was the case 25 years after the show. No matter what was going on, I could just pick up the phone to call him and tell him good news, call him to get advice, call him to just talk and see how he’s doing,” he told Us Weekly in June 2019. “He was my other dad and I miss that connection, and he was the most loving, warm, caring man I’ve ever known to everybody. I miss that desperately.”
Scroll down to see where the Growing Pains cast ended up after the show.
The Canada native later starred on How I Met Your Mother, Hope & Gloria, Raising Helen, The Bold and the Beautiful, The L.A. Complex, Scream Queens, Fuller House, This Is Us and reality series Unusually Thicke. He often made cameos as himself in popular culture.
Thicke married Tanya Callau in 2005. He shared sons Brennan and Robin with ex-wife Gloria Loring and son Carter with ex-wife Gina Tolleson.
The actor died in December 2016 after suffering a heart attack. He was 69.
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Kerns continued to act in TV movies and shows, including The Closer and Chicago Hope. She also appeared in films such as Knocked Up and Girl, Interrupted.
Her passion then turned to directing, with Kerns’ credits including episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, Dawson’s Creek, Pretty Little Liars, This Is Us, ER, Scrubs and Fuller House.
Kerns filed for divorce from architect Marc Appleton in August 2019 after 24 years of marriage. She has a daughter, Ashley, with ex-husband Richard Kerns.
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The former child star went on to appear on Kirk, Fireproof, Fuller House and the Left Behind film series. He also pursued evangelical work, training fellow Christians to minister and cohosting The Way of the Master.
Cameron tied the knot with Growing Pains costar Chelsea Noble in July 1991. They are parents of six children. They adopted Jack, Isabella, Anna and Luke, while Olivia and James are their biological kids.
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Gold starred in several TV movies as well as Diagnosis Murder, Touched by an Angel, Melissa & Joey, Wanted and All Hallows’ Eve. The actress has been open about her struggle with an eating disorder and wrote the 2003 book Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life about her battle.
She married husband Roby Marshall in October 1994 after meeting him through Kerns. The couple share four sons: Sage, Bailey, Aiden and Dylan.
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The actor appeared on Ghostwriter, Never Have I Ever, Ditching Party and The Quarantine Bunch. He is married to Joanie Miller.
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Johnson has kept busy with roles in The Avengers, What Women Want, Roswell, Dirt, The Killing, Drunk History, Blindspot and Critical Role. She has also done voiceover work.
The actress has been dating Brian W. Foster since 2012. They got engaged in 2018.
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Where has DiCaprio been since Growing Pains? Everywhere! The actor went on to star in films including Titanic, The Great Gatsby, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Romeo + Juliet, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He became an Oscar winner in 2016 for The Revenant and has three Golden Globes under his belt.
The activist and producer, who has previously been linked to Gisele Bündchen, Bar Refaeli and Rihanna, has been dating girlfriend Camila Morrone since 2017.
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