Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her work as an American TV journalist. Her television shows are popular and she is the first television journalist to broadcast live on the New York Stock Exchange. A veteran broadcaster with over 20 years experience of reporting on business and the economy, she played a key role in aiding CNBC become one of television's top channels for economics and business. Her highly successful journalistic career can be said to suggest that the lady was destined for the field. Maria was a confused kid about the best career option she wanted to pursue. The next she wanted to become an interior designer. Her interest was drawn by the exciting world of journalism and never looked at a different direction. This feisty woman is not just a fantastic journalist; she's also an example for other women who strive to make it in the men-dominated field. Named as one of the fifty 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 a journalist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actor in film, TV and on stage since the latter part of 1970. Since the age of 27 she has performed as professional active as a thespian. Her first stage appearance was in 1990 with an Off-Broadway production of The Big Funk directed by John Patrick Shanley. The following year, she was cast in her first TV role in The Perfect Tribute. In 1992, when she was cast as a back-up role in the movie the film Basic Instinct the film, her career started to take off. The Firm was the film where she became the leading lady for the first and sole moment. It was a film that featured Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and many others. The 90s saw her working alongside some of the top actors in Hollywood, like Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Grant. In recent times, she played Dr. Alex Blake (a police procedural-crime drama) in Criminal Minds.