Jeanne Tripplehorn
Acting • Born 1963-06-10
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.
Filmography
51 credits
Basic Instinct
Movie • 1992
Dr. Beth Garner
Mickey Blue Eyes
Movie • 1999
Gina Vitale
Sliding Doors
Movie • 1998
Lydia
Very Bad Things
Movie • 1998
Lois Berkow
The Trap
Movie • 2007
Maggie
Swept Away
Movie • 2002
Marina
Paranoid
Movie • 2000
Rachel
Waterworld
Movie • 1995
Helen
'Til There Was You
Movie • 1997
Gwen Moss
Crazy on the Outside
Movie • 2010
Angela
The Night We Never Met
Movie • 1993
Pastel
The Firm
Movie • 1993
Abby McDeere
Winged Creatures
Movie • 2009
Doris Hagen
The Amateurs
Movie • 2006
Thelma
Steal This Movie
Movie • 2000
Johanna Lawrenson
Office Killer
Movie • 1997
Norah Reed
Grey Gardens
Movie • 2009
Jacqueline Kennedy
Relative Values
Movie • 2000
Miranda Frayle / Freda Birch
Five
Movie • 2011
Pearl
Brother's Keeper
Movie • 2002
Lucinda Pond
Electric City
Movie • 2012
Voice Actor (voice)
The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'
Movie • 1999
Self
Morning
Movie • 2013
Alice
Old Man
Movie • 1997
Addie Rebecca Brice
A Perfect Man
Movie • 2013
Nina
Timecode
Movie • 2000
Lauren Hathaway
Word of Honor
Movie • 2003
Maj. Karen Harper
Gloria Bell
Movie • 2019
Fiona Mason
Little Pink House
Movie • 2018
Charlotte Wells
The Perfect Tribute
Movie • 1991
Julia
Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld
Movie • 2018
Herself / Helen (archive footage)
We Only Know So Much
Movie • 2018
Jean Copeland
Reality Bites
Movie • 1994
Cheryl Goode (uncredited)
Monument Ave.
Movie • 1998
Annie
Ana
Movie • 2020
Pastor Helen
The Ben Stiller Show
TV • 1992
Dinner for Five
TV • 2001
New Girl
TV • 2011
Ouli
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Alex Blake
Big Love
TV • 2006
Barbara Henrickson
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Addie
Frasier
TV • 1993
Chelsea
The Gilded Age
TV • 2022
Sylvia Chamberlain
Blue
TV • 2012
Vera
The Terminal List
TV • 2022
Secretary Hartley
Mr. Show with Bob and David
TV • 1995
Stone Throwing Singer
Mrs. America
TV • 2020
Eleanor Schlafly
Undone
TV • 2019
Beth Hollingsworth
BoJack Horseman
TV • 2014
Jeanne "Joan" Tripplehorn (voice)
The Lowdown
TV • 2025
Betty Jo Washberg