Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a TV actress for over 30 years. She was born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25, 1968. She was a part of Chris Noth in Law and Order. Her father was John Hennessy. John Hennessy, her father was a sales executive/marketing executive as well as a meat salesman. The job involved constant travel for his family. In 1982, the mother Maxine left her family and her daughter was raised mostly with Eleanor Her maternal grandparents who lived in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline Hennessy is an identical twin of her sibling John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. is a popular Canadian magazine writer and TV host. Hennessy traces her ancestry to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side and to a majority of Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian on her mother's side. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School and later graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to busk in her local Toronto subway. Hennessy and 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 being considered to play the character. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple is blessed with two sons.