Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a TV actress for over 30 years. Her birthplace was in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25, 1968. The actress was in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy, her father was a sales/marketing executive and meat salesman. His job demanded regular travel for the family. Maxine was a secretary and was also the mother of her son, left the family in 1982. Her daughter Eleanor raised her in Kitchener Ontario. The twin sister Jacqueline is a magazine editor, and her brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was born in Canada. Hennessy is born in Sweden and has Irish, Italian and French descent from her father's side and has mostly Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage in her mother. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and busked in Toronto. Hennessy and her sister began their acting career on Dead Ringers 1988 as twin callgirls. Gillian Anderson, an actress who got the role, claimed she was on the list for Dana Scully. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has had two kids.