Acting

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Born 1963-06-10 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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.

Credits

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The Lowdown
as Betty Jo Washberg
2025
The Terminal List
as Secretary Hartley
2022
The Gilded Age
as Sylvia Chamberlain
2022
Mrs. America
as Eleanor Schlafly
2020
Ana
as Pastor Helen
2020
Undone
as Beth Hollingsworth
2019
Gloria Bell
as Fiona Mason
2019
Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld
as Herself / Helen (archive footage)
2018
We Only Know So Much
as Jean Copeland
2018
Little Pink House
as Charlotte Wells
2018
BoJack Horseman
as Jeanne "Joan" Tripplehorn (voice)
2014
A Perfect Man
as Nina
2013
Morning
as Alice
2013
Blue
as Vera
2012
Five
as Pearl
2011
New Girl
as Ouli
2011
Crazy on the Outside
as Angela
2010
Winged Creatures
as Doris Hagen
2009
Grey Gardens
as Jacqueline Kennedy
2009
The Trap
as Maggie
2007
The Amateurs
as Thelma
2006
Big Love
as Barbara Henrickson
2006
Criminal Minds
as Alex Blake
2005
Word of Honor
as Maj. Karen Harper
2003
Swept Away
as Marina
2002
Brother's Keeper
as Lucinda Pond
2002
Dinner for Five
2001
Paranoid
as Rachel
2000
Steal This Movie
as Johanna Lawrenson
2000
Relative Values
as Miranda Frayle / Freda Birch
2000
Timecode
as Lauren Hathaway
2000
Mickey Blue Eyes
as Gina Vitale
1999
The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'
as Self
1999
Monument Ave.
as Annie
1998
Very Bad Things
as Lois Berkow
1998
Sliding Doors
as Lydia
1998
Office Killer
as Norah Reed
1997
The View
as Self
1997
'Til There Was You
as Gwen Moss
1997
Old Man
as Addie Rebecca Brice
1997
Mr. Show with Bob and David
as Stone Throwing Singer
1995
Waterworld
as Helen
1995
Reality Bites
as Cheryl Goode (uncredited)
1994
Frasier
as Chelsea
1993
The Firm
as Abby McDeere
1993
The Night We Never Met
as Pastel
1993
The Ben Stiller Show
1992
Basic Instinct
as Dr. Beth Garner
1992
The Perfect Tribute
as Julia
1991
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Addie
1951