Jeanne Tripplehorn
Acting
Biography
Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn (born June 10, 1963) is an American actress. She began her career in theatre, acting in several plays throughout the early 1990s, including Anton Chekov's Three Sisters on Broadway. Her film career began with the role of a police psychologist in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992). Her other film roles include The Firm (1993), Waterworld (1995) and Sliding Doors (1998). On television, she starred as Barbara Henrickson on the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–11) and as Dr. Alex Blake on the CBS police drama Criminal Minds (2012–14), and she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the 2009 HBO movie Grey Gardens.
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Movies (34)
Ana2020Pastor Helen
Gloria Bell2019Fiona Mason
Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld2018Herself / Helen (archive footage)
We Only Know So Much2018Jean Copeland
Little Pink House2018Charlotte Wells
A Perfect Man2013Nina
Morning2013Alice
Five2011Pearl
Crazy on the Outside2010Angela
Winged Creatures2009Doris Hagen
Grey Gardens2009Jacqueline Kennedy
The Trap2007Maggie
The Amateurs2006Thelma
Word of Honor2003Maj. Karen Harper
Swept Away2002Marina
Brother's Keeper2002Lucinda Pond
Paranoid2000Rachel
Steal This Movie2000Johanna Lawrenson
Relative Values2000Miranda Frayle / Freda Birch
Timecode2000Lauren Hathaway
Mickey Blue Eyes1999Gina Vitale- The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'1999Self
Monument Ave.1998Annie
Very Bad Things1998Lois Berkow
Sliding Doors1998Lydia
Office Killer1997Norah Reed
'Til There Was You1997Gwen Moss
Old Man1997Addie Rebecca Brice
Waterworld1995Helen
Reality Bites1994Cheryl Goode (uncredited)
Shows (16)
The Lowdown2025Betty Jo Washberg
The Terminal List2022Secretary Hartley
The Gilded Age2022Sylvia Chamberlain
Mrs. America2020Eleanor Schlafly
Undone2019Beth Hollingsworth
BoJack Horseman2014Jeanne "Joan" Tripplehorn (voice)
Blue2012Vera
New Girl2011Ouli
Big Love2006Barbara Henrickson
Criminal Minds2005Alex Blake
Dinner for Five2001
The View1997Self
Mr. Show with Bob and David1995Stone Throwing Singer
Frasier1993Chelsea
The Ben Stiller Show1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame1951Addie