Kristine Sutherland

Kristine Sutherland may not be a marquee name, but she anchored something beloved. As Joyce Summers across every season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she gave the show its emotional ballast, the warm, worried mother who kept a supernatural saga grounded in family. Add her turn in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and a pattern emerges: she plays the steady center, not the spotlight. I find that kind of work quietly heroic. A series only feels like a family because someone like Sutherland makes the parent real. To me she is a craftsperson who earns affection through warmth rather than flash.

Name (English)

Kristine Sutherland

Name (Japanese)

クリスティン・サザーランド

Reading

くりすてぃん・さざーらんど

Born

April 17, 1955 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

Boise, Idaho, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / actor / voice actor

University

University of Kentucky

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89

Tags

• Idaho
• television actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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