Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

First person to live broadcast from the floors of the New York Stock Exchange Maria Bartiromo is a renowned American television journalist, with several highly popular shows under her belt. Over the course of her twenty-year career as a journalist, Maria Bartiromo had a significant role in the establishment of the television channel CNBC to be one of leading companies in business and economic reporting. An extremely successful journalist her professional career proves that she always had the potential to be a journalist in this field. Maria struggled with picking a path she wanted to pursue as an adult woman. She would dream of being a singer one day and become an interior designer in the next. After she learned about the thrilling and exciting opportunities that journalism brings, there was nothing she could do but go. She's not just an excellent journalist, but also an example to women who want to succeed in a world that is dominated by males. In addition to being named one of the fifty women who defined the decade, she was the first journalist of female descent to ever be inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. She is also an author as well as a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actress in the film industry, TV and stage since the late 1970s. A gifted thespian she is active in the professional world for over the past 27 years. Her stage debut came in 1990, when she performed an Off Broadway version of The Big Funk directed by John Patrick Shanley. Her next role was her first television role, The Perfect Tribute. In 1992, she was cast as a back-up character in the film Basic Instinct, her career took off. The Firm is where she began her career as a female actor in the film alongside Tom Cruise & Gene Hackman. She worked in the 90s alongside some of the top actors in Hollywood, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Grant. In recent times, she played Dr. Alex Blake (a police procedural-crime drama) in Criminal Minds.