Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo - the American television journalist and broadcaster who was the first broadcaster to stream direct through the New York Stock Exchange - is renowned for several of her extremely successful programs. With over twenty years experience as a journalist, Bartiromo played an important role in establishing the television channel CNBC to be one of tops in business and economic reportage. An extremely successful journalist her work proves she was always destined to pursue a career in the field. As a teenager, Maria struggled to decide what profession she would pursue. When she first started out, Maria wanted to be a singer. Then she switched to interior designer. After discovering the joys of journalism, she has never went to another career. She is not only a great journalist but she also serves as an example to women who want a career within an industry that is heavily which is predominantly male-dominated. The first journalist of female gender to be recognized as one of fifty Faces that Shaped this Decade. She is also a journalist as well as a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actress in TV and film, in theatre as well as film and television. A gifted thespian she has been active professionally from the last 27 years. Her stage debut came in 1990 with an Off-Broadway version of The Big Funk directed by John Patrick Shanley. The Perfect Tribute was her first role on TV a year after. In 1992, her acting career established when she was offered as a character in the movie Basic Instinct. In the film The Firm however that she got the role of woman leading the film for just the first time, and this was also against famous actors such as Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. In the 1990s she teamed up with many famous actors from the industry, such as Gwyneth Palow in Sliding Door Hugh Grant Mickey Blue Eyes Julie Andrews Relative Values. Recently she played Dr Alex Blake in the internationally well-known crime procedural Criminal Minds.