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. She is an extremely popular TV personality who has appeared on a variety of popular show. With more than twenty years of experience as a journalist, Bartiromo was instrumental in setting up the TV channel CNBC to be one of tops in business and economic coverage. An extremely successful journalist her professional career proves that she was always destined to work in this area. When she was a teenager Maria had a hard time deciding which career she wanted. Maria would one day want to be a musician and the next be an interior designer. Journalism was too much for her not to take it seriously. She is not only a great journalist, but an inspiration for women who wish to be successful in a world dominated by men. She was the first journalist from a female perspective to be selected in the list of fifty Faces that Shaped in the Decade. She's also a writer as well as a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actor in film television and on stage since the latter part of 1970. A gifted thespian she has been active professionally from over the past 27 years. In 1990, she made her debut on stage in Off-Broadway production from The Big Funk written by John Patrick Shanley. The show was later adapted to her first TV role, The Perfect Tribute. In 1992, she played as a support role in the movie Basic Instinct the film, her career started to take off. It was in The Firm however that she was cast as the woman leading the film for just the very first time. She was cast in the film alongside stars like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. In the 90s, she worked with some of the top stars in the industry including Gwyneth Paltrow on Sliding Doors Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. In the international hit crime procedural Crime Minds, Dr. Alex Blake was recently as played by her.