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. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy's job as a meat salesman and marketing executive meant a deal of traveling, and the family had to move often. Maxine is a secretary, who was mother to the child she lost in 1982. Her daughter Eleanor took care of her at home in Kitchener Ontario. Her younger brother is John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. and a identical twin sister Jacqueline, who is a journalist for a magazine and a TV show hosts in Canada. Hennessy is a descendent of Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side, as well as to a majority of Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian from her mother's. She graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, Kitchener Ontario. She used to act in Toronto's subway. Hennessy made her acting debut along with her sister on Dead Ringers, 1988. Gillian Anderson, an actress who was chosen for the role, claimed she was on the shortlist to play Dana Scully. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple had two children.