Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's highest-paid TV actors was born on November 25, 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. She appeared 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 in motion. The mother, Maxine an administrator, was a secretary who left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter partially fostered by her paternal grandmother Eleanor 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 host in Canada. Hennessy is from Sweden, Irish, Italian and French descent on the father's end and carries a majority of Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage from her mother. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School where she graduated Grand River Collegiate Institute and busked in Toronto. Hennessy was a twin in Dead Ringers with her older sister. Gillian Anderson who played the character Dana Scully, said that she had been shortlisted. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two sons.