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Tripplehorn left the series after two seasons and Jennifer Love Hewitt replaced her as a new agent. She received a six-figure salary per episode of Criminal Minds. In July 2012, Tripplehorn joined the cast of CBS procedural Criminal Minds in season eight, replacing Paget Brewster's character Emily Prentiss.
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In 2011, she appeared in Five, a movie on the Lifetime television network. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for this performance. In 2009, she played the role of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the HBO movie Grey Gardens. This is regarded as the most successful role of her career. In 2006, Tripplehorn was cast in a leading role as Barbara Henrickson in the HBO drama series Big Love, opposite Bill Paxton. She also starred opposite Madonna in the 2002 flop film Swept Away. The next few years she had supporting roles in small films, including Office Killer, Monument Ave., and Sliding Doors and in 1999 starred opposite Hugh Grant in the British romantic comedy Mickey Blue Eyes. As lead actress, Tripplehorn starred in the 1997 box-office bomb romantic drama, 'Til There Was You.
The following year, she starred as Abby McDeere opposite Tom Cruise in The Firm and in 1995 had another female lead role alongside Kevin Costner in Waterworld. In 1992, Tripplehorn made her film debut, in a supporting role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct. She has also been on Broadway in Anton Chekov's Three Sisters opposite Amy Irving and Lili Taylor. She appeared Off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley's The Big Funk in 1990, then co-starred with Val Kilmer in a 1993 production of John Ford's 1630s play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Tripplehorn then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 19 (1986–90), which also included Laura Linney. She performed on the local television shows Creature Feature (1982–83) and Night Shift (1983).
She graduated from Edison High School in 1981 and spent one semester studying at the University of Tulsa. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. Tripplehorn was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Suzanne (née Ferguson) and Tom Tripplehorn, who was once a guitarist with Gary Lewis & the Playboys.