| Launching her performing career in her native Tulsa, Jeanne
Tripplehorn spent several years as a local radio and TV host. Educated at
both the University of Oklahoma and Julliard, Tripplehorn was first seen on
a nationwide basis in 1991 in a supporting role in the made-for-TV movie The
Perfect Tribute, a fictionalized retelling of the events leading up to
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Many of Tripplehorn's film characterizations
have ranged from mildly eccentric to deeply disturbed, thanks in great part
to her breakthrough appearance as Michael Douglas' "rough sex"
partner in the erotic chiller Basic Instinct (1992). She got a chance to
play normal -- albeit frazzled -- as Hugh Grant's fiancTe in the romantic
comedy Mickey Blue Eyes (1999); in 2000, she returned to rougher territory
as a lesbian gangster in Mike Figgis' experimental ensemble film Time Code
2000. |