Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a TV actress for over 30 years. She was born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25, 1968. She starred with Chris Noth in Law and Order. Hennessy's father was John Hennessy. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive which required a lot of traveling and led to frequent moves for the family. Maxine, a secretary who was the mother of her son, left the family in 1982. The daughter Eleanor took care of her in Kitchener Ontario. Her twin sister Jacqueline is an American journalist, while her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was raised in Canada. Hennessy traces her ancestry to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side, as well as predominantly Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian on her mother's side. Stanley Park Senior Public School as well as Grand River Collegiate Institute both in Kitchener, Ontario. She also used to perform as a busker in Toronto. Hennessy as well as her sister, had their first acting role as two call-girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. 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 children.