Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a TV actress for over 30 years. Her birthplace was in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25 in 1968. She was in Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy her father worked as a food salesman, director of sales and marketing, which required her to travel a lot. The family of her father was always on the move. In 1982, her mother Maxine left her family and her daughter was raised partly by Eleanor her maternal grandmother who lived in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline Hennessy, who is identical twin to her younger sister John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. is a popular Canadian magazine writer and TV host. Hennessy has Irish French Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side and mostly Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian ancestry on her mother's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School where she graduated Grand River Collegiate Institute and performed in Toronto. Hennessy along with her sister also made their acting debut playing two call-girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. The actress was not short-listed to play Dana Scully on The X-Files According to Gillian Anderson the actress who eventually got the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.