Kristine Sutherland

Kristine

Kristine played Buffy and Dawn’s mother, Joyce Summers. Kristine is from Boise in Idaho. Her birth name was Kristine Young. She goes by ‘Kristine Sutherland’ because there was already an actress named Kristine Young. She has been in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Legal Eagles, Providence, California Dreams, Easy Street and Remington Steele. She is married to actor John Pankow (who played Cousin Ira in Mad About You and the boyfriend of Jennifer Aniston in The Object of My Affection).
Kristine is a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, though not of horror. She loves Buffy, and watched it every week though has said on several occasions that she can find the show scary. She worried a lot when she was working on Buffy that Sarah Michelle Gellar was working too hard. Kristine used her role as Joyce to prepare herself for when her daughter (Eleanore) became a teenager.

Played: Joyce Summers
Date of birth: 17 April, 1955
Appeared in: Welcome to the Hellmouth, The Harvest, The Witch, Angel, The Puppet Show, Nightmares, Prophecy Girl, When She Was Bad, School Hard, Inca Mummy Girl, Ted, Bad Eggs, Surprise, Innocence, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Passion, Killed By Death, Becoming (Part 1), Becoming (Part 2), Anne, Dead Man's Party, Faith, Hope and Trick, Band Candy, Lover's Walk, Amends, Gingerbread, Helpless, Bad Girls, Consequences, Enemies, Earshot, Choices, The Prom, Graduation Day (Part 1), The Freshman, Fear, Itself, This Year's Girl, Who Are You?, Restless, Buffy vs Dracula, Real Me, The Replacement, Out of My Mind, No Place Like Home, Fool For Love, Shadow, Listening to Fear, Into the Woods, Triangle, Checkpoint, Blood Ties, Crush, I Was Made to Love You, The Body, The Weight of the World, Normal Again, Conversations with Dead People, Bring on the Night
   
Source:The Watcher's Guide by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Related Trivia:
  • Kristine’s first scene
  • Kristine on Michelle
  • Kristine’s final bow
  • Blinking body
  • Cast costumes
  • Italy or Illinois?
  • Adoption
  • Cup cake
  • Resources:IMDB filmography
    Suggested by: Jess
    Added: › 26th September 2004
    Updated: › 8th August, 2005
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