Jeanne Tripplehorn
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Basic Instinct
as Dr. Beth Garner
1992
Mickey Blue Eyes
as Gina Vitale
1999
Sliding Doors
as Lydia
1998
Very Bad Things
as Lois Berkow
1998
The Trap
as Maggie
2007
Swept Away
as Marina
2002
Paranoid
as Rachel
2000
Waterworld
as Helen
1995
'Til There Was You
as Gwen Moss
1997
Crazy on the Outside
as Angela
2010
The Night We Never Met
as Pastel
1993
The Firm
as Abby McDeere
1993
Winged Creatures
as Doris Hagen
2009
The Amateurs
as Thelma
2006
Steal This Movie
as Johanna Lawrenson
2000
Office Killer
as Norah Reed
1997
Grey Gardens
as Jacqueline Kennedy
2009
Relative Values
as Miranda Frayle / Freda Birch
2000
Five
as Pearl
2011
Brother's Keeper
as Lucinda Pond
2002
TV Appearances
The Ben Stiller Show
1992
Dinner for Five
2001
New Girl
as Ouli
2011
The View
as Self
1997
Criminal Minds
as Alex Blake
2005
Big Love
as Barbara Henrickson
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Addie
1951
Frasier
as Chelsea
1993
The Gilded Age
as Sylvia Chamberlain
2022
Blue
as Vera
2012
The Terminal List
as Secretary Hartley
2022
Mr. Show with Bob and David
as Stone Throwing Singer
1995