Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's most successful TV actresses was born 25 November 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta. She was a part of Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy's job as a meat-salesman and marketing executive meant a amount of travel, so the family was required to relocate frequently. Maxine, a secretary who was also the mother of her son, left the family in 1982. Their daughter Eleanor took care of her at home in Kitchener Ontario. She has a twin sister Jacqueline is a magazine writer, and her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was born in Canada. Hennessy is a member of a family of Irish French Swedish Italian descent Her mother, however, is mostly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School then completed her studies at Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to be a busker in her local Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister had their first acting role as the twins of callers in the 1988 film Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully at The X-Files, claimed that Hennessy was being considered for the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.