Kristine Sutherland

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Kristine Sutherland is an actress best known for her role as Joyce Summers on the television show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Born Kristine Young, she took her stage name "Sutherland" from Donald Sutherland, whom she had named her cat after. Coincidentally, Donald had a supporting role in the non-canonical Buffy film.