Casting for Season 8

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Criminal Minds Scoop: Big Love's Jeanne Tripplehorn Joins Cast as a Series Regular

Criminal Minds has big love for Jeanne Tripplehorn — the venerable CBS procedural has tapped the actress to join the cast as a series regular.
Tripplehorn, who fills the void left by longtime castmember Paget Brewster, will play “a new profiler,” confirms Minds exec producer Erica Messer. “Her character will be introduced in the [Season 8] premiere.”
Tripplehorn is coming off of a five-year run on HBO’s Big Love. She recently veered into comedic territory via a multi-episode arc as Dermot Mulroney’s manipulative ex-wife on New Girl.

Source: http://tvline.com/2012/06/13/criminal-minds-jeanne-tripplehorn/

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I like the fact that Jeanne is not a pretty young thing but is a mature beautiful woman. This could be very interesting to see with Director Strauss. One thing I loved about Prentiss is that she could make "ma'am" sound like she was calling Strauss a bitch for her manipulations. I hope to see that with this new character. I like the thought of someone who could be prove to be a challenge for Rossi, perhaps someone whose experience in profiling falls in between Hotch and Rossi in terms of length of time. We shall see. :)

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Yeah. I has kind of a sad because I was hoping in my little shipper heart place that we'd get someone I could ship with Reid, but.. that's a no, lol. Although if the show was to ever actually put someone with Reid it wouldn't be one of the team members anyway.

Maybe she'll be an HBIC, which I'm all for, being a fan of several HBICs already. :D