Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her performance as an American TV journalist. Her television shows are loved and she's the first television journalist to report live on the New York Stock Exchange. Veteran broadcaster with more than two decades' experience covering business and the economics, she was instrumental in aiding CNBC to become one of the leading channels in economics and business. A highly successful journalist, her work proves she always had the potential to pursue a career in the field. Maria was confused as a young girl about which career path she wanted to pursue. One day she would want to sing, and then the next day, and an interior designer. However, once she experienced the excitement that journalism has to offer there was no looking back. This feisty woman is not only a great journalist, she's also a role model for other women who strive to make it in the male-dominated field. Apart from being among the list of the "50 Faces of Decade" she was the first female journalist inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. Also, she is a writer as well as a columnist.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actor in film and television in theatre as well as film and television. An accomplished thespian, she is active in the professional world for over the past 27 years. In 1990, she performed her stage debut in an Off-Broadway performance of The Big Funk written by John Patrick Shanley. The Perfect Tribute was her debut TV role within a year. In 1992, when she was a supporting character in the film Basic Instinct, her career took off. Then, in The Firm, she played the leading female character for the first time. She was on the screen alongside Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Throughout the 1990s she worked with some of the biggest stars in the industry including Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. She played Dr. Alex Blake on the popular international police procedural drama Criminal Minds.