Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a actor on TV for more than 30 years. She was born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25 in 1968. The show she was on was Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy, her father was a sales/marketing executive and meat salesman. This job required constant travel for his family. In 1982, the mother Maxine left her family and her daughter was raised partly with Eleanor her maternal grandmother in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline has an identical twin brother and an older sister, both of whom are magazine writers and television host of shows in Canada. Hennessy is of Irish, Swedish, Italian and French descent at the end of her father's line and is mainly Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage in her mother. Stanley Park Senior Public School as well as Grand River Collegiate Institute both located in Kitchener, Ontario. She also used to perform as a busker in Toronto. Hennessy together with her sister had their first acting experience in Dead Ringers 1988 as twin callgirls. Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully at The X-Files, claimed that Hennessy was thought of for the part. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two sons.