Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her performance as an American television journalist. Her programs are extremely well-known and she was the first television journalist to broadcast live on the New York Stock Exchange. An experienced broadcaster who has more than twenty years of experience in reporting on business and the economy, she was instrumental in helping CNBC become one of television's most popular channels for economics and business. An extremely successful journalist her professional career proves that she was always meant to work in this area. But as a teenager, Maria was very confused about which career path to choose. She imagined being an artist one day, and an interior designer the next. After discovering the joys of journalism, she never ever looked around. She's not just a fantastic journalist; she's also an example for women trying to be successful in a masculine-dominated industry. Named as one of the fifty Faces who Shaped the Decade she also became the first journalist of female gender to be recognized in the Cable Hall of Fame. Also, she is a journalist and an author.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actress for film, TV and stage since the end of the 1970s. An accomplished thespian, she has been performing professionally for the last 27 years. Her career began in 1990 in an off Broadway production called The Big Funk, by John Patrick Shanley. In the following year she was cast in her first television role, The Perfect Tribute. In 1992 she got her breakthrough after being cast in Basic Instinct as a secondary role. It was in the movie The Firm however that she got the role of leading female character for the very first time. She was cast in the film alongside actors like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s her career included working alongside top Hollywood actors like Gwyneth as in Sliding doors, Hugh Grant Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews Relative Values. She portrayed Dr. Alex Blake on the popular international police procedural drama Criminal Minds.