Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a actor on TV for more than 30 years. Her birthplace was in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25, 1968. She was a part of Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy worked as a meat marketer and also a marketing executive. This job required lots of traveling, this meant that the family was frequently moved. Her mother Maxine a secretary left the family in 1982 leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother Eleanor living in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline Hennessy is the identical twin to her younger sibling John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. A Canadian magazine writer and TV host. Hennessy is of Irish, Swedish, Italian and French descent on the father's end and carries a majority of Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage from her mother. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School and later was a graduate of Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to perform busking on her local Toronto subway. Hennessy began her acting career alongside her sister in Dead Ringers, 1988. Gillian Anderson, an actress who got the role, claimed she had been on the shortlist to play Dana Scully. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.