Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her role as an American TV journalist. Her television shows are loved and she's the first television journalist to live report from the New York Stock Exchange. With over twenty years experience as a journalist, Maria Bartiromo was instrumental in establishing the television channel CNBC to be one of tops in business and economic reporting. It is easy to see that her highly successful career as a journalist was designed for the woman. Yet as a young woman Maria was confused as to the best career choice. Maria could one day decide to pursue a career as a musician, later an interior designer. When she realized the joy journalism had to offer there was no turning back. Apart from being a superb journalist, she is an inspiration to girls who want to be successful in a predominantly male world. Named as one of the 50 Faces that Shaped the Decade she also became the first journalist of female gender to be recognized in the Cable Hall of Fame. Along with being a columnist and author, Sheila is also one of the 50 Faces That Shaped The Decade.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actor in TV and film, and theatre. From the age 27 she has performed as a professionally active thespian. She first made an appearance on stage in an off-Broadway production of The Big Funk by John Patrick Shanley in 1990. The Perfect Tribute. A year later, her television debut came in The Perfect Tribute. Her biggest break in her career came about in the year 1992, when she acted as a support role in the movie Basic Instinct. The Firm was the film where she became the leading woman for the very first and only time. The film was in competition with Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and others. In the late 1990s she worked with a variety of top industry stars including Gwyneth Palow in Sliding Door Hugh Grant Mickey Blue Eyes Julie Andrews Relative Values. Recently she played Dr Alex Blake in the internationally popular police procedural crime drama Criminal Minds.