Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo was the first American journalist to report live on the New York Stock Exchange. She has a number of extremely successful programs to her name. An accomplished broadcaster who has more than 20 years of experience the reporting of economics and business she played an integral role in the establishment of television channel CNBC as among the best in the business and economy segment. Her highly successful journalism track record suggests that she was destined for this field. At the age of 16, Maria had a hard time deciding which profession she wanted to pursue. One day she would want to be a performer, then the next day, an interior designer. However, once she experienced the thrill journalism has to offer, there was no looking back. She's not just a top journalist but an example for women looking to make it in an industry dominated males. Along with being voted among the fifty people who shaped the decade she was the first female journalist ever recognized in the Cable Hall of Fame. Also, she is a writer and columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn was born in America and is an actor who has been professionally employed for the last 27 years. She's been a professional actor for 27 years. She started her professional career in 1990 in a production that was The Big Funk, a John Patrick Shanley off-Broadway play. She was then cast for her first television role, The Perfect Tribute. In 1992 she got her big break in a role as one of the characters in the movie Basic Instinct. It was in the movie The Firm however that she was a main female role for the first time and that too opposite stars like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. In the 90s, she worked alongside some of the most renowned stars in the industry including Gwyneth Paltrow on Sliding Doors, Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. Recently she played Dr Alex Blake in the internationally famous crime drama that is a police procedural Criminal Minds.