Jeanne Tripplehorn

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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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The Lowdown
TV show Betty Jo Washberg
2022
The Terminal List
TV show Secretary Hartley
2022
The Gilded Age
TV show Sylvia Chamberlain
2020
Mrs. America
TV show Eleanor Schlafly
2020
Ana
Movie Pastor Helen
2019
Undone
TV show Beth Hollingsworth
2019
Gloria Bell
Movie Fiona Mason
2018
Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld
Movie Herself / Helen (archive footage)
2018
We Only Know So Much
Movie Jean Copeland
2018
Little Pink House
Movie Charlotte Wells
2014
BoJack Horseman
TV show Jeanne "Joan" Tripplehorn (voice)
2013
A Perfect Man
Movie Nina
2013
Morning
Movie Alice
2012
Blue
TV show Vera
2011
Five
Movie Pearl
2011
New Girl
TV show Ouli