Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her performance as an American television journalist. Her television shows are popular and she is the first journalist to live report at the New York Stock Exchange. A broadcasting veteran with over 20 years of experience writing about economics and business she was instrumental in establishing the TV channel CNBC as among the most prestigious within the economic and business segment. It's clear that her highly successful career as a journalist was designed specifically for women. Maria when she was young was not sure of her choice of career. The next she wanted to become an interior decorator. When she realized the excitement that journalism has to offer there was no turning at her. In addition to being a superb journalist, this vivacious girl also serves as an inspirational figure for young women who wish to succeed in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world. As well as being recognized as one of fifty people who shaped the decade, she was the first woman journalist to be a part of the Cable Hall of Fame. She is also a journalist and an author.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn (born Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn) is an American actor working in both film, television and theater. An accomplished thespian, she has been performing professionally for over the past 27 years. Her acting debut was on stage in an off-Broadway production The Big Funk by John Patrick Shanley in 1990. Then, in The Perfect Tribute, she had her debut TV role the following year. When she was cast as a back-up role in the movie the film Basic Instinct, her career took off. It was in The Firm however that she was cast as the woman leading the film for just the very first time and that too opposite stars like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. In the 90s, she worked alongside some of the top actors in Hollywood, like Gwyneth paltrow and Hugh Grant. She recently played Dr. Alex Blake in the internationally famous crime drama that is a police procedural Criminal Minds.