Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo, an American TV journalist, and the first broadcaster to live on the New York Stock Exchange floor live, is a highly acclaimed television personality with several famous programs. An experienced broadcaster who has more than two decades' experience reporting on business and the economics, she was instrumental in aiding CNBC grow into one of television's top channels for business and the economy. Maria's phenomenally successful journalistic professional career suggests she was born for the field. When she was a teenager Maria was unable to determine what profession she would pursue. She imagined being a singer one day and become an interior designer in the next. The thrill of journalism was just too compelling for her not to take it seriously. In addition to being a superb journalist, the feisty girl is also an inspirational figure for girls who want to succeed in a predominantly male world. In addition to being recognized as one of fifty women who defined the decade, she is the first woman journalist to ever be inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. She is also a journalist and an author.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn, an American actress in film and television and theatre. An accomplished thespian, she has been performing professionally for her early teens for the past 27 years. She first appeared on stage in the production The Big Funk (John Patrick Shanley) on Broadway off-Broadway. In The Perfect Tribute, she was given her first TV appearance a year later. In 1992, she was cast as a back-up character in Basic Instinct Her career began to take off. It was in The Firm however that she was cast as the female lead for the very first time and that too opposite famous actors such as Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Through the 1990s she collaborated with some of the biggest names in the field, such as Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, Hugh Grant in Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews in Relative Values. She recently played Dr. Alex Blake in the internationally well-known crime procedural Criminal Minds.