Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

First person to live broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Maria Bartiromo is an internationally acclaimed American television journalist who has many highly-rated shows under her belt. An experienced broadcaster with more than twenty years of experience writing about economics and business she was instrumental in the establishment of television channel CNBC as one of the most prestigious in the business and economy segment. It's easy to recognize the fact that her life of success as a journalist was designed for the woman. As a teenager, Maria struggled to decide which career she wanted. One day she would want to sing, and then the next day, and an interior designer. When she found out about the thrilling and exciting opportunities that journalism brings, there was no stopping her. In addition to being an outstanding journalist, but she is also an example to women looking to pursue a career within an industry that is heavily dominated by males. First woman ever to join the Cable Hall of Fame, and named as one of fifty Faces that Shaped Decade. Also, she is a journalist and an author.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn is an American actor in the field of film and television as well as a theatre actress. She has been a professional actor for 27 years. Her stage debut was in 1990, when she performed an Off Broadway version of The Big Funk directed by John Patrick Shanley. The show was later adapted to her first TV role, The Perfect Tribute. When she played as a support character in Basic Instinct Her career began to take off. The Firm is where she first made her appearance as a female actor in the film alongside Tom Cruise & Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s she collaborated with some of the biggest actors in the business, including Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. Most recently, she played her character as the character of Dr. Alex Blake in Criminal Minds.