Joyce is Buffy's mom. She and her husband separated before they moved to Sunnydale. She works at an art exhibit. Last season she learned that Buffy is a vampire slayer and didn't take it well. She told Buffy if she left the house, she shouldn't come back. Buffy did return and Joyce is starting to get used to the idea that her daughter kills vampires. She almost burned Buffy at the stake though when little kids where influencing parents into getting rid of anything evil. Buffy of course didn't die! I think she might have a crush on Giles!?
Joyce Summers on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
No stranger to the underworld, Kristine Sutherland, a native of Kentucky, got her start in high school playing Pegora the witch for the Lexington Children's Theatre Company. After going on to attend the University of Kentucky, Kristine traveled to London to study at The Drama Studio.
After completing her studies, New York City beckoned and Kristine soon got her professional start Off-Broadway and in regional theatre. Since then she has appeared in a number of pilots for television, guest starred on many popular television shows, and appeared in countless commercials and voice-overs. many of you may remeber her as the next door neighbor, Mae Thompson, in the hit Disney film, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". In 1993, Kristine and husband John Pankow (cousin Ira on "Mad About you,") moved to Los Angeles. Currently, Kristine plays the ever motherly Joyce Summers on the WB's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."