Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo - the American television journalist and broadcaster who was among the very first to broadcast live directly through the New York Stock Exchange - is known for several of her highly successful shows. With over twenty years experience as a journalist, Maria Bartiromo was instrumental in establishing the television channel CNBC to become one of the leading companies in business and economic coverage. Highly successful as a journalist, her work proves she was always meant to pursue a career in the field. Maria struggled with deciding which path she should pursue as a woman. When she first started out, Maria was aspired to become a performer. Then she switched to interior design. After discovering the joys of journalism, she has never ever looked back. In addition to being an outstanding journalist, but she is also an inspiration for women who are looking for a job within an industry that is heavily which is predominantly male-dominated. In addition to being listed as 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. Also, she is a writer as well as a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actress for film as well as stage since the late 1970s. She is a talented thespian who is active in the professional world for her early teens for the past 27 years. In 1990, she performed her stage debut with an Off Broadway production of The Big Funk written by John Patrick Shanley. Then, in The Perfect Tribute, she was given her first TV appearance a year later. Her career started when she was commissioned to play a role in the film Basic Instinct. The Firm was the film in which she was the lead woman for the very first and only time. This was opposite Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and others. In the 1990s, she collaborated with several top industry stars including Gwyneth Palow in Sliding Door Hugh Grant Mickey Blue Eyes Julie Andrews Relative Values. She played Dr. Alex Blake on the well-known international crime drama Criminal Minds.