Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her performance as an American TV journalist. Her television shows are loved and she's the first journalist to broadcast live on the New York Stock Exchange. With more than twenty years of experience as a journalist, Maria Bartiromo was instrumental in setting up the TV channel CNBC as one of the most prominent in economic and business reporting. Maria's highly successful journalism professional career suggests she was meant to be in journalism. Maria had a difficult time picking a path she wanted to take as woman. The next she wanted to be an interior decorator. Once she discovered the pleasures of journalism, she has never turned back. The feisty lady is not only an outstanding journalist, she is also an inspiration for the women who are aspiring to make the big time in a male dominant market. Along with being listed as one of the fifty women who defined the decade, she is the first journalist of female descent to ever be inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. Also, she is an author and a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actress who has worked in TV and film in theatre as well as film and television. Talented as a thespian, she's been actively involved in professional theatre over the last 27 years. Her career began in the year 1990 with an off Broadway show called The Big Funk, by John Patrick Shanley. The Perfect Tribute was her first role on TV one year later. She was cast as a character supporting in Basic Instinct. It was the beginning of her successful profession. It was in the movie The Firm however that she was chosen as the leading female character for the very first time and that too opposite actors like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s Gwyneth collaborated together with Hugh Grant on Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews for Relative Values. In the international hit crime procedural Crime Minds the character the character of Dr. Alex Blake was recently as played by her.