Jeanne Tripplehorn
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Jeanne Marie Tripplehornis an American film and television actress. Her film career began with the role of a police psychologist in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct. Her other film roles include The Firm, Waterworldand Sliding Doors. On television, she starred as Barbara Henrickson on the HBO drama series Big Loveand as Dr. Alex Blake on the CBS police drama Criminal Minds, and she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the 2009 HBO...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth10 June 1963
CityTulsa, OK
CountryUnited States of America
It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.
You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.
But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.
I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.
It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.
I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.
I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.
Most indie shoots, or any kind of film shooting, even TV, it's out of Los Angeles, unfortunately. I wish that would change, that people could work where their families are, across the board - crew, cast. I wish we could all stay here.