Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo, an American TV journalist and the first to broadcast from the New York Stock Exchange floor live, is a highly popular TV personality who has appeared on a variety of famous programs. A broadcasting veteran with over two decades of experience in covering economics and business, she played an integral role in establishing the TV channel CNBC as being among top-rated within the economic and business segment. Maria's phenomenally successful journalistic professional career suggests she was born for the field. Maria was a bit unsure when picking a path she wanted to take as a woman. One day she thought that she would become an interior decorator. When she realized the excitement that journalism has to offer, there was no looking back. She's not only a great journalist, she's also a role model for other women who strive to make it in the male-dominated field. Hers was the first journalist of female gender to be recognized as one of fifty Faces who Shaped in the Decade. Additionally, she is a journalist and an author.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actress in film and television and theatre. A gifted thespian she has been active professionally from over the past 27 years. She first made an appearance on stage in an off-Broadway production called The Big Funk by John Patrick Shanley in the year 1990. The Perfect Tribute. A year later, her television debut was in The Perfect Tribute. In 1992 her career was established when she was offered to play a role in the movie Basic Instinct. It was in The Firm however that she was cast as the woman leading the film for just the first time. She was cast in the film alongside actors like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. In the 90s, her work was a collaboration with Hollywood's top stars such as Gwyneth as in Sliding Doors, Hugh Grant Mickey Blue Eyes, and Julie Andrews Relative Values. She was the role of Dr. Alex Blake on the popular international police procedural thriller Criminal Minds.