Maria Bartiromo and Jeanne Tripplehorn bio

Maria Bartiromo, an American TV journalist and the first to broadcast directly from the New York Stock Exchange floor live, is a highly acclaimed television personality with several well-known show. With more than twenty years of experience as a journalist, Maria Bartiromo played an important role in the establishment of the television channel CNBC as one of the tops in business and economic reporting. Highly successful as a journalist, her professional career proves that she always had the potential to pursue a career in the field. As a teenager, Maria struggled to decide which career she wanted. Maria would one day want to be a musician and later an interior designer. The thrill of journalism was just too compelling for her to ignore. Not only is she a brilliant journalist but she is also an inspiration for women who want a career within an industry that is heavily dominated by males. Apart from being among the list of the "50 Faces of Decade" she was also the first female journalist who was inducted into Cable Hall of Fame. As well as an author and columnist, Sheila is one of fifty faces who shaped The Decade.

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn has been an American actor in film, TV and on stage since the latter part of 1970. She's been a professional actor for over 27 years. She began her career in 1990, in a non Broadway production called The Big Funk, by John Patrick Shanley. In The Perfect Tribute, she had her debut TV role a year later. In 1992, she played as a support role in the movie the film Basic Instinct the film, her career started to take off. It was in the movie The Firm however that she was chosen as the leading female character for the first time and that too opposite famous actors such as Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Over the course of the 90s Gwyneth worked together with Hugh Grant on Mickey Blue Eyes and Julie Andrews for Relative Values. Recently she played Dr Alex Blake in the internationally famous crime drama that is a police procedural Criminal Minds.