Joan Ford

Joan Ford was a minor character featured in the short-lived ABC television series The Gates. Played by actress Cheryl White, she appeared in the eighth episode of the series, "Dog Eat Dog".

Biography
Joan Ford was a resident of the exclusive Gates community in Washington State. She was married to a man named Simon Ford and had a son named Lukas. Joan knew that her husband and son were both werewolves and that Simon was the Pack Alpha of all the werewolves living at The Gates. Simon was a violent and abusive man who would often return home heavily inebriated after a hunt. He would take his frustrations out by beating on Joan and Lukas. Eventually however, Lukas decided that he they had suffered enough and he attacked his father in the early morning hours and left him beaten and bleeding on the front lawn of their home. Though many of the neighbors had cast their suspicions on a man named Ben McAllister (a vampire whom Simon had quarreled with the previous evening), Joan knew the truth about what had happened. Fearing what might happen if Police Chief Nick Monohan learned about her family's true nature, she chose to remain silent. Monohan learned the truth on his own however and confronted Joan and Lukas in their home. Armed with the knowledge of what this would mean to the werewolf community, Nick elected to drop the charges against Lukas.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character of Joan Ford was created by David Barrett and Gabrielle G. Stanton.


 * Although both her husband and son were werewolves, there is no evidence to suggest that Joan Ford was anything but a normal mortal woman.