Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a TV actress for over 30 years. She was born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25 of 1968. She appeared in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman, and executive in sales/marketing a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the entire family. Maxine Hennessy who was employed as a secretary for the family, left in 1982. She was raised partly by Eleanor her paternal grandmother. Jacqueline has an identical twin brother, as well as a younger sister. Both have been published in magazines and TV host from Canada. Hennessy traces her ancestry to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side, and predominantly Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian on her mom's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School and later graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to busk on her local Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister began their acting career in Dead Ringers 1988 as twin callgirls. Gillian Anderson who played the role of Dana Scully, said that she had been shortlisted. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two sons.