Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo has been praised for her work as an American TV journalist. Her programs are extremely popular and she is the first broadcaster to live report from the New York Stock Exchange. Over the course of her twenty-year career as a journalist, Maria Bartiromo had a significant role in the establishment of the television channel CNBC to be one of tops in business and economic reportage. It's easy to recognize the fact that her life of success being a reporter was meant for the woman. But as a teenager, Maria was confused as to the best career choice. She imagined being a singer one day and become an interior designer in the next. Once she discovered the pleasures of journalism, she never went around. Apart from being an outstanding journalist this vivacious girl also serves as an inspiring figure to girls who want to achieve success in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world. She was the first female journalist ever to be recognized as one of fifty Faces which Shaped the Decade. As well as a writer and columnist Sheila is one of the 50 faces that shaped the Decade.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actress in TV and film and theatre. A gifted thespian, she has been working in the world of professional acting over the last 27 years. She first appeared on stage as a character in a 1990 production of The Big Funk (John Patrick Shanley) on Broadway off-Broadway. The Perfect Tribute was her debut TV role one year later. In 1992, she received her first big break 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 1990s she teamed up with many famous actors from the industry, such as Gwyneth Palow in Sliding Door Hugh Grant Mickey Blue Eyes Julie Andrews Relative Values. Recently, she was in the role of Alex Blake, Dr. Alex Blake in Criminal Minds.