Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's most successful TV actresses was born on November 25, 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. The actress was in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive which required a lot of travel and resulted in frequent shifts of the family. Her mother died in 1982. Maxine left her family and the daughter was cared for mostly with Eleanor her maternal grandmother in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline Hennessy is an identical twin of her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. A television and magazine writer from Canada. host. Hennessy has Irish French Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side as well as a lot of Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian family ancestry from her mother's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and was a busker in Toronto. Hennessy was the first actress to make her debut with her sister in Dead Ringers, 1988. According to Gillian Anderson, the actress who won the role, she was nominated for the part in Dana Scully in The X-Files. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple had two children.