Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her work as an American television journalist. Her shows are very well-known and she was the first television journalist to live report at the New York Stock Exchange. Veteran broadcaster with more than 20 years experience of covering business and the economy, she played a key role in making CNBC become one of television's leading channels in economics and business. Maria's phenomenally successful journalistic profession suggests she was meant to be in this field. Maria was a young girl who, at the time, was unsure of the career path she wanted to pursue. When she first started out, Maria wanted to be a singer. Later she became an interior design. After discovering the joys of journalism, she has never ever looked to another career. The feisty lady isn't only a great journalist, she's also a role-model for women trying to make it in the male-dominated field. Along with being listed as one of the fifty people who shaped the decade, she's the first journalist of female descent to ever be inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. Also, she is an author and columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn (born Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn) is an American actress who is active on television, film and the theater. She's been an professional actor for 27 years. She first made an appearance on stage during an off-Broadway production The Big Funk by John Patrick Shanley in the year 1990. In the following year she was chosen for her first TV role in The Perfect Tribute. Her biggest break in her professional career happened in 1992 when she played a supporting character in Basic Instinct. The Firm was the film in which she was the lead woman for the very first and only time. The film was in competition with Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and many others. Through the 1990s her career included working alongside top Hollywood actors like Gwyneth on Sliding doors, Hugh Grant Mickey Blue Eyes as well as Julie Andrews Relative Values. In the past, she played Dr. Alex Blake in the internationally famous crime drama that is a police procedural Criminal Minds.