Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her role as an American television journalist. Her programs are extremely popular and she is the first television journalist to report live on the New York Stock Exchange. A veteran broadcaster with over 20 years experience of writing about business and economy, she played a key role in helping CNBC grow into one of television's most popular channels for business and the economy. It is obvious that Maria is going to become a journalist once she has completed her career success. But as a teenager, Maria was very confused about what career to pursue. She imagined being a singer one day and an interior designer the next. When she was able to experience the benefits of journalism, she has never turned back. Apart from being a great journalist this vivacious girl also serves as an inspirational figure for young women who wish to be successful in a predominantly male world. She was the first journalist of female gender to be named as one of 50 Faces that Shaped this Decade. Also, she is an author and columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actor in film, TV and stage since the end of the 1970s. An accomplished thespian, she is active in the professional world for the last 27 years. Her stage debut was in 1990 with an Off-Broadway production of The Big Funk directed by John Patrick Shanley. The show was later adapted to her first TV role, The Perfect Tribute. In 1992, when she played as a support character in the film Basic Instinct Her career began to take off. Then, in The Firm, she played the role of lead female for the first time. She was on the screen alongside Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s she collaborated with some of the top actors in the business, including 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 Dr. Alex Blake was recently as played by her.