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Joanna Johnson is an American actress, writer, producer and director. She is best known for her actress popular roles as Caroline Spencer Forrester (1987–1990, 1992, 2001) first and as her twin sister, Karen Spencer (1991–1994, 2009, 2011–2014) on the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.

Johnson continues to work actively also behind the camera in the entertainment show business, having several credits as writer, producer, showrunner and director.

She wrote the independent film The Shrink Is In (2001), after she created the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2003–2006) which ran for three seasons. She was co-executive producer on ABC Family's series Make It or Break It (2009–2012), Fairly Legal (2012), for USA Cable, and the CW's Emily Owens, M.D. (2012–2013). She is also the creator, executive producer and director of Freeform's limited series Love in the Time of Corona (2020). Previously, Johnson was the executive producer, showrunner and senior writer on Freeform's drama series The Fosters (2013–2018), which ran for five seasons and actually in its spin-off, Good Trouble (2019–2024) that has been renewed for Season 5.

In 1983, Johnson graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree of English literature. She subsequently graduated from the USC Film School.

Joanna Johnson was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She attended USC Film School and, after graduating, pursued an acting career. She started acting in small roles on television series such as Riptide, Mike Hammer (1984), and The Twilight Zone (1985). She had a first leading role in the terror movie Killer Party (1986).

The next year she took a role as Caroline Spencer Forrester (1987–1990, 1992, 2001) on the CBS daytime successful worldwide soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Joanna Johnson starred the original cast in the early seasons of this long-running daily soap opera series alongside, Ronn Moss, Susan Flannery, Katherine Kelly Lang, John McCook and many other actors. Her international popularity playing Caroline's role increased every year specially with the love triangles storylines between Caroline Spencer and Ridge Forrester, ending with their expected wedding and some last heartbreaking episodes with Caroline's illness secret and death, where Joanna Johnson showed her great capacity as an actress.

Johnson's came back starring months later as Caroline's twin sister, Karen Spencer (1991–1994, 2009, 2011–2014), role she played for four years more. She also reprised her role as Karen on The Bold and the Beautiful from April 28, 2009, to mid November 2009 and again from late-December 2000 to January 5, 2001. Johnson returned again as Karen Spencer role on July 22, 2011, and since March 28, 2012 she was on recurring status.

In 1993, she took a stab at the music industry with the album Standing In My Rain (1993). The record was published by Finnish label Sony Music Entertainment (Finland) Oy.

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