Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo, an American TV journalist and the first broadcaster to live from the New York Stock Exchange floor live, is a highly well-known TV host with a number of popular shows. She is a broadcasting veteran with more than 20 years of journalism experience covering the business world and economics. Her work was essential in helping to make CNBC one of the top channels within this field. The lady's highly successful journalism professional career suggests that she was destined for the field. Maria struggled with deciding which path she should take as a woman. She was then tempted to become an interior designer. The thrill of journalism was just too compelling for her not to take it seriously. She is not only an outstanding journalist, but she is also an inspiration to women who want a career in a field that is which is predominantly male-dominated. She was named one of the 50 Faces That Shaped the Decade she also became the first ever female journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. Also, she is an author and columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actor in TV and film and theatre. She's been an professional actor for 27 years. In 1990, she made her stage debut with an Off Broadway production in The Big Funk written by John Patrick Shanley. In the following year she was cast in her first TV role in The Perfect Tribute. In 1992 she got her breakthrough by being a part of the film Basic Instinct as a secondary role. For The Firm, she played the lead female role for the first time. She was cast opposite Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s she collaborated with some of the biggest names in the field, such as Gwyneth Paltrow as Sliding Doors Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. In the hit international police procedural Crime Minds the character the character of Dr. Alex Blake was recently as played by her.