Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's most successful TV actresses was born 25 November 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. The show she was on was Law and Order She was featured on Law and Order along with Chris Noth. Hennessy, who was born in Edmonton Alberta was a star of the show. Her father, John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive who required extensive travel and resulted in frequent shifts of the entire family. Maxine Hennessy worked as a secretary within the family, left in 1982. She was partially raised by Eleanor her paternal grandmother. She has a twin sister Jacqueline is an American magazine writer, and her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was raised in Canada. Hennessy has a lineage that goes back to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side, and to a majority of Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian on her mother's side. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School then was a graduate of Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to busk on Toronto's subways. Toronto subway. Hennessy was twins in Dead Ringers with her older sister. She was short listed to play Dana Scully on The X-Files as per Gillian Anderson the actress who ultimately got the part. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.