Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her work as an American television journalist. Her shows are very loved and she's the first television journalist to broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange. A veteran broadcaster with over twenty years of experience in reporting on business and the economy, she played a key role in aiding CNBC to become one of the leading channels in economics and business. The success of her journalistic work can be said to suggest that the lady was destined for the field. Maria was a young girl who, at the time wasn't sure about her career choice. Her dream was to be a singer one day and an interior designer the next. After she learned about the excitement and thrills that journalism brings, there was nothing she could do but go. Apart from being an outstanding journalist the feisty girl is also an inspiring figure to females who are looking to be successful in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world. Hers was the first female journalist ever to be recognized as one of 50 Faces who Shaped this Decade. She is also an author and a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn (born Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn) is an American actor working in both film, television as well as theater. From the age 27 she has been a professionally active thespian. She first made an appearance on stage in an off-Broadway production The Big Funk by John Patrick Shanley in the year 1990. The Perfect Tribute was her first role on TV one year later. The year was 1992 and she got her first role as a character supporting in the movie Basic Instinct. This marked the beginning of her impressive professional career. It was in The Firm however that she was chosen as the woman leading the film for just the very first time and that too opposite actors like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s she collaborated alongside some of the most renowned actors in the business, including Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. Recenty, she played Dr Alex Blake (a police procedural-crime drama) in Criminal Minds.