Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's most successful TV actresses was born 25 November 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta. The show she was on was Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive which required a lot of travel and resulted in frequent moves for the entire family. Maxine Hennessy, who worked as a secretary for the family left in 1982. She was partially raised by Eleanor The paternal grandmother of her. Jacqueline Hennessy is an identical twin of her younger brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. is a popular Canadian magazine writer and TV host. Hennessy is of Irish French Swedish and Italian family ancestry from her father's side, and mainly Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian ancestry on her mother's. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School and later completed her studies at Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to perform busking in the Toronto subway. Hennessy's sister and she appeared as twin call girls on the film Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, an actress who ended up getting the part, said that she had been on the shortlist for Dana Scully. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.