Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo - the American television journalist and broadcaster who was the very first to broadcast live directly via the New York Stock Exchange - is well-known for a number of her highly successful shows. With more than twenty years of experience in the field of journalism, Maria Bartiromo was instrumental in the establishment of the television channel CNBC to become one of the tops in business and economic reporting. The success of her journalistic work is a proof that this woman was meant to be in this field. Maria, as a girl was not sure of her career choice. At first, she would have liked to sing. Later she became an interior designer. After discovering the joys journalistic work, she never went around. Alongside being an outstanding journalist the feisty girl is also an inspiring figure to females who are looking to achieve success in a world that is predominantly male. The first ever woman to enter the Cable Hall of Fame, being named one of fifty Faces Who Shaped Decade. In addition to being a writer and columnist Sheila is among the 50 faces that shaped The Decade.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actress for film, TV and stage since the late 1970s. Thespian Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has worked as a professional actor for the past 27 years. She first made an appearance on stage during an off-Broadway production The Big Funk by John Patrick Shanley in 1990. The show was later adapted to her first role on television, The Perfect Tribute. Her breakthrough in her career came about in the year 1992, when she was a character in the film Basic Instinct. The Firm marked her first role as a female leading actress, opposite Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Throughout the 1990s she worked alongside some of the most renowned names in the field, such as Gwyneth Paltrow on Sliding Doors, Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. In the hit international crime procedural Crime Minds the character of Dr. Alex Blake was recently performed by her.