Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta in November 25, 1968. She is among Canada's most famous and wealthiest TV actresses. The actress was in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy her father worked as a food salesman, sales/marketing manager and required her to travel frequently. Her family was frequently moving. In 1982, her mother Maxine had to leave her family and she was taken care of in part with Eleanor her maternal grandmother in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline is the identical twin brother, as well as an older sister, both of whom have been published in magazines and TV show hosts from Canada. Hennessy is of Irish French Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side and mostly Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian family ancestry from her mother's. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School where she graduated Grand River Collegiate Institute and was a busker in Toronto. Hennessy was a twin in Dead Ringers with her older sister. She was short listed for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files According to Gillian Anderson the actress who ultimately got the part. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple have two sons.