Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her work as an American TV journalist. Her television shows are well-known and she was the first journalist to broadcast live on the New York Stock Exchange. Over the course of her twenty-year career as a journalist, Bartiromo played an important role in setting up the TV channel CNBC as one of the leading companies in business and economic reportage. An extremely successful journalist her career is proof that she always had the potential to work in this area. In her teens, Maria struggled to decide which career she wanted. Her dream was to be singing one day, then become an interior designer in the next. She was captivated by the excitement of journalism and never looked back. In addition to being a great journalist she is an inspirational figure for females who are looking to achieve success in a predominantly male world. Hers was the first journalist of female gender to be recognized among the fifty Faces who Shaped in the Decade. In addition to being a writer and columnist Sheila is among the 50 faces that shaped The Decade.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actress in TV and film, as well as theatre. Talented as a thespian, she's been working in the world of professional acting over the last 27 years. She made her acting debut on stage in an off-Broadway production called The Big Funk by John Patrick Shanley in the year 1990. The Perfect Tribute was her first role on TV one year later. In 1992 she got her breakthrough after being cast in the film Basic Instinct as a secondary character. For The Firm, she played the leading female character for the first time. She was on the screen alongside Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. In the 90s, she worked with many top actors in Hollywood, including Gwyneth Paltrow as well as Hugh Grant. She recently played Dr. Alex Blake in the internationally well-known crime procedural Criminal Minds.