Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo, an American TV journalist, and the first to broadcast directly from the New York Stock Exchange floor live, is a highly acclaimed television personality with several famous shows. She's a veteran broadcaster with more than 20 years of journalism experience covering the business and economy. Her work was essential in helping to make CNBC one among the most well-known stations in this sector. An extremely successful journalist her professional career proves that she was always destined to be a journalist in this field. Maria was a confused young girl about which career path she wanted to pursue. At one point she wanted to sing, and the next day an interior designer. The excitement of journalism was too much for her to ignore. The feisty lady is not only an outstanding journalist, she is can also be a source of inspiration to women who want to make the big time in a male dominating world. Apart from being among the list of the "50 Faces of Decade" she was also the first female journalist who was inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. She also is an author as well as a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actor in film, TV and stage since the late 1970s. An accomplished thespian, she has been performing professionally for her early teens for the past 27 years. Her stage debut came in the year 1990 when she appeared on Broadway with an Off-Broadway version of The Big Funk directed by John Patrick Shanley. In The Perfect Tribute, she was given her first TV appearance one year later. In 1992, when she was cast as a back-up character in the film Basic Instinct the film, her career started to take off. It was in The Firm however that she was chosen as the leading female character for the very first time, and this was also against actors like Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s Gwyneth collaborated alongside Hugh Grant on Mickey Blue Eyes as well as Julie Andrews for Relative Values. In the internationally acclaimed police procedural Crime Minds, Alex Blake, the doctor. Alex Blake was recently played by her.