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Joanne Simpson is a foster mother, whose foster family background made her an embodiment of the stereotypical ideal model family.

Child's Play 2 (1990)

Joanne instantly felt compassion for Andy Barclay, unlike her husband Phil, who is wary of his distant and strange behavior. Regardless of Phil's worries, they decide to take him in. As Andy gets settled in, he sees a Good Guy doll named Tommy, which had been previously owned by another foster child.

When Andy reacts with momentary horror, Phil wonders what is going on, but Joanne has some understanding of Andy's past fears and offers to get rid of the toy so as not to cause trouble. At one point, she discovers that her family's priceless ornament, passed down for generations, had been broken by Chucky, who used it to destroy Tommy so he could assume the identity to remain in the Simpson residence and close to Andy.

Joanne fights with Phil's constantly about Andy's past, and alleged criminal insanity. However, when Phil is murdered, it leaves her grief-stricken and disillusioned about Andy. She angrily holds him accountable, and instead of having him charged with murder, she packs his things and sends him back to the orphanage. Kyle, knowing that Andy likely did not kill Phil, tries to reason with her, but Joanne vindictively ignores her.

Death

Joanne heads upstairs to her bedroom. The paramedics just left the premises with Phil's body, and Kyle, having been spurned by her earlier, went outside to smoke on the swing set. Having been left behind, Chucky follows her upstairs, gags her and slits her throat (off-camera). Her corpse is later found by Kyle.

Trivia

Joanne is Chucky's 9th victim since Child's Play. She is also the first of Chucky's victims to be killed off-screen, not counting the murders he committed before becoming a doll.
She and Phil made the decision to spend their days as foster parents after the harrowing truth that Joanne is unable to give birth.
Originally, Joanne's name was Mildred.
Jenny Agutter regretted having done Child's Play 2, as Joanne Simpson was demoted to a supporting character in the theatrical cut, saying "It was much less than the script I read”. The deleted scenes from the film were later re-cut for the TV version, giving her more screen time.
Actress Veronica Cartwright was considered to play Joanne Simpson.

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+{{Character
-{{Infobox character
+|title1 = Joanne Simpson
-|image = file:Joanne_Simpson.jpg
+|image1 = CHP2Joanne_Simpson.png
-|name = Joanne Mildred Simpson
-|gender = Female
+|caption1 =
+|gender: = Female
-|known relatives = [[Phil Simpson|Phil]] (Husband) <br> [[Kyle]] (Foster Daughter) <br> [[Andy]] (Foster Son)
+|known_relatives: = [[Phil Simpson|Phil]] (Husband) <br> [[Kyle]] (Foster Daughter) <br> [[Andy Barclay|Andy]] (Foster Son)
-|death = 1990
+|birthdate: =
-|portrayed by = [[Jenny Agutter]]
+|death: =  1990
-|first appearance = [[Child's Play 2]]}}
+|portrayed_by: = [[Jenny Agutter]]
+|first_appearance: = [[Child's Play 2]]
-'''Joanne Mildred Simpson''' was a well supplying, caring, but internally insecure and uptight foster mother for all the male and female children she kept in contemporary fostercare.
+}}'''Joanne Simpson''' is a foster mother, whose foster family background made her an embodiment of the stereotypical ideal model family.
-==Biography==
-Like her husband and the entire Simpson family, her external foster family background made her an embodiment of a stereotypical ideal model family (including her being a mother and housewife who cooks and clean, having an office-worker for a husband as well as having huge house fit for a general family (which consists of two-stories and a basement) and a family station wagon).
-Joanne lived on Prescott Lane with her husband Phil, where they spent the remainder of their days supplying for the brief foster children they helmed after the harrowing truth that Joanne cannot give birth to any biological children. Though she and her husband tried for many years to adopt, the agencies always turned the couple down. Despite how she had a good record with being a foster parent.
 ==''Child's Play 2'' (1990)==
-Joanne instantly felt compassion for Andy unlike Phil who was wary of his distant and strange behaviour and questions Andy's sanity (and presumably worries that Andy could have committed the murders himself in the past, but was never proven).
+Joanne instantly felt compassion for Andy Barclay, unlike her husband Phil, who is wary of his distant and strange behavior. Regardless of Phil's worries, they decide to take him in. As Andy gets settled in, he sees a Good Guy doll named [[Tommy]], which had been previously owned by another foster child.
-Joanne, at one point, discovered her that her family's priceless family China ornament, passed down for generations, had been broken by Chucky, who used it to destroy [[Tommy ]] which Chucky, looking identical, assumed the identity of to remain in the Simpson residence and close to Andy.
+When Andy reacts with momentary horror, Phil wonders what is going on, but Joanne has some understanding of Andy's past fears and offers to get rid of the toy so as not to cause trouble. At one point, she discovers that her family's priceless ornament, passed down for generations, had been broken by [[Chucky]], who used it to destroy Tommy so he could assume the identity to remain in the Simpson residence and close to Andy.
-Joanne fought with Phil's recommendations and arguments for Andy about his alleged criminal insanity and being the secret murderer for Chucky's body count up until his tragic death which grief-stricken disillusioned her about her beliefs about Andy and she angrily held him accountable for and instead of having him charged with murder to the police (as there was no visible evidence of Andy for being her husband's killer and Andy was still under aged at that time to be arrested), she emotionally packed his things and sent him back to the orphanage. Kyle, knowing that Andy likely did not kill Phil and that it was not intentional if he did, tried to reason with her, but Joanne vindictively ignored and rebuffed her.
+Joanne fights with Phil's constantly about Andy's past, and alleged criminal insanity. However, when Phil is murdered, it leaves her grief-stricken and disillusioned about Andy. She angrily holds him accountable, and instead of having him charged with murder, she packs his things and sends him back to the orphanage. Kyle, knowing that Andy likely did not kill Phil, tries to reason with her, but Joanne vindictively ignores her.
-The last person to see Joanne alive before heading upstairs to her demise was Kyle.
 ==Death==
+[[File:JoanneSimpson.jpg|thumb|200px|Joanne's death.]]
-The recently widowed Joanne was killed by Chucky inside her and Phil's bedroom moments after the authorities and paramedics left the premises and Kyle, having been spurned by her earlier, went outside to smoke and swing from the outside swing.
+Joanne heads upstairs to her bedroom. The paramedics just left the premises with Phil's body, and Kyle, having been spurned by her earlier, went outside to smoke on the swing set. Having been left behind, Chucky follows her upstairs, gags her and slits her throat (off-camera). Her corpse is later found by Kyle.
-Her throat was slit by the Good Guy play knife with its durable sharp edge and gagged while her sewing machine was left rapidly pumping away mimicking the horror of an evil horrifying murder.
-After she was caught by Chucky, Joanne might've realized that Andy was telling the truth about Chucky and regretted sending him back to the orphanage.
 ==Trivia==
+*Joanne is Chucky's 9th victim since ''[[Child's Play]]''. She is also the first of Chucky's victims to be killed off-screen, not counting the murders he committed before becoming a doll.
-*Before Jenny Agutter was cast, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001021/ Veronica Cartwright] of ''Alien'' was considered to play Joanne Simpson.
+*She and Phil made the decision to spend their days as foster parents after the harrowing truth that Joanne is unable to give birth.
-*The role of foster mother Joanne Simpson reflects on her portrayer Agutter's real life charitable services that involves helping children, which includes the Diabetic Association and NCH Action for Children, a charity which provides home and other help for homeless children, with which Agutter has been involved for five years. The role also reflected on Agutter's real life aspects that were recent at the time she filmed her role as Joanne including Agutter's then-latest marriage and her expectance of becoming a mother for the first time to her then-unborn child Jonathan who was later born on the same year ''Child's Play 2'' was theatrically released, which is considered ironic as Agutter's character in the film was unable to conceive children of her own while Agutter herself was able to so.
+*Originally, Joanne's name was Mildred.
-*Of note, many years before the Child's Play films, Jenny Agutter played a character similar to Kyle in the 1971 film ''Walkabout, ''loosely based on the best-selling novel of the same name. Agutter was a teenage girl who was having a picnic in the Australian backcountry when without warning a man opened fire on them before taking his own life. She then had to traverse the unforgiving Australian outback with minimal means of survival, while choosing not to reveal what happened to the little boy.
+*Jenny Agutter regretted having done ''Child's Play 2'', as Joanne Simpson was demoted to a supporting character in the theatrical cut, saying "It was much less than the script I read”. The [[Deleted Scenes|deleted scenes]] from the film were later re-cut for the TV version, giving her more screen time.
+*Actress [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001021/ Veronica Cartwright] was considered to play Joanne Simpson.
 [[Category:Female Characters]]
 [[Category:Child's Play 2 Characters]]