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A stage-trained actress, Jeanne Tripplehorn scored in her feature debut as Dr. Beth Gardner, the lover/psychologist of Michael Douglas, in Paul Verhoeven's "Basic Instinct" (1992). The Oklahoma native trained at Juilliard and made her professional debut in the historical TV-movie "The Perfect Tribute" (ABC, 1991), with Jason Robards and Lukas Haas. She also appeared in the critically-acclaimed but short-lived sketch comedy "The Ben Stiller Show" (Fox, 1992-93), and provided the voice of the operator who speaks to Robert Morse's Truman Capote in the Broadway play "Tru" (which was filmed and later broadcast on PBS in 1992). Tripplehorn co-starred with Val Kilmer in the revival of John Ford's "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" (1992) at the New York Public Theater, as well as a 1991 production of "The Big Funk."

On the big screen, Tripplehorn has been making a bigger splash (sometimes literally). After her debut in the popular, controversial "Basic Instinct" she played the supporting role 'Pastel' in the Gen-X romantic comedy "The Night We Never Met" and Tom Cruise's supportive wife in the Sydney Pollack thriller "The Firm" (both 1993). She next suffered through the long, agonizing "Waterworld" shoot in Hawaii, playing Kevin Costner's leading lady in that notorious 1995 aquatic adventure. Sharp-eyed fans can also spot Tripplehorn in an unbilled cameo in "Reality Bites" the 1994 comedy directed by Ben Stiller. She next starred as a hopelessly shy romantic waiting for "Mr. Right " who shows up as a dashing architect played by Dylan McDermott"in "Til There Was You" (1997), then played the nosy wife of a man (Daniel Stern) who was present when a prostitute was killed at a Las Vegas-style bachelor party in Peter Berg´s dark comedy, “Very Bad Things" (1998).

Tripplehorn was next seen in “Sliding Doors" (1998), a romantic comedy-drama that told parallel stories of a recently fired PR executive (Gwyneth Patrow) whose life is radically changed by missing the subway by a few seconds. After playing the object of desire for a quick-tempered Irish-American car thief (Dennis Leary) in "Monument Ave." (1998), she played the murderous daughter of a mafia boss (James Caan) who gets a smitten British expatriate (Hugh Grant) involved her family´s criminal ventures in the mob comedy, "Mickey Blue Eyes" (1999). Tripplehorn next played an obnoxious American movie star engaged to a meek and mild English aristocrat (Edward Atterton), much to the dismay of his countess mother, (Julie Andrews) in the straight-to-video comedy, "Relative Values" (2000). In "Timecode" (2000), Mike Figgis´ experimental feature that showed four concurrent stories onscreen at the same time, Tripplehorn was the jealous lover of an aspiring actress (Salma Hayek) whose suspicions that she´s having an affair prompts her to plant an audio bug, leading to her eventually hearing her girlfriend have sex with a producer (Stellan Skarsgard) while on an audition.

Continuing to perform in low-budget indies rather than big budget extravaganzas, Tripplehorn donned blonde locks for "Steal This Movie" (2000), playing the lover of Yippie founder and political agitator Abbie Hoffman (Vincent D´Onofrio) who shares famed rebel with his wife, Anita (Janeane Garofolo), until constant FBI surveillance and a right-wing smear campaign tear their lives apart. An appearance on IFC"Dinner for Five" (2001- ), a roundtable discussion between actors about the business of Hollywood hosted by Jon Favreau, was followed by a supporting role as an upper class woman on a Mediterranean cruise in Guy Ritchie´s dreadful remake of "Swept Away" (2002). Tripplehorn returned to the small screen for "Brother´s Keeper2 (USA, 2002), playing a homicide detective who hunts down her brother (Corin Nemec) after he escapes from a maximum security prison, and "Word of Honor" (TNT, 2003), playing a JAG prosecutor investigating the case of a businessman (Don Johnson) who finds himself suddenly accused of presiding over a My Lai-like massacre when he served in Vietnam.

She was next seen as one of three wives married to a home improvement store owner (Bill Paxton) in "Big Love" (2006), HBO´s much-anticipated series about one man's battle with modern-day polygamy and a fundamentalist leader trying to extort money through the fear of God. Tripplehorn was the oldest and more intelligent of the wives, running the household while battling against her "sisters" (Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin) over power, seniority and their husband´s sexual attention. The subject matter aroused both interest and controversy, the latter prompting the producers to put a disclaimer before every episode stating that the Mormon Church banned polygamy in 1890. Nonetheless, "Big Love" premiered in March 2006 to good reviews and strong ratings. Meanwhile, Tripplehorn was set to be seen in "The Amateurs" (2006), a comedy about a small town banding together to make a porn film.