Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's most successful TV actresses was born on the 25th of November, 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. She was in Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive who required extensive traveling and led to frequent relocations for the entire family. The mother, Maxine an administrator, left the family in 1982 leaving her daughter to be partially taken care of by her maternal grandmother Eleanor who lives in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline is the identical twin brother and one younger sister, both of whom have been published in magazines and TV host of shows in Canada. Hennessy has a father with Irish French Swedish Italian descent and her mother, on the other hand, is mainly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School where she graduated Grand River Collegiate Institute and was a busker in Toronto. Hennessy along with her sister also were actors for the first time as two call-girls in the 1988 film Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, an actress who was chosen for the role said she had been on the shortlist for Dana Scully. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.