Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton in Alberta, Canada on November 25th, 1968. She is one of Canada's richest and most well-known television actresses. She was a part of Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy's job as a salesman for meat and a marketing manager required a large amount of travel, so the family had to move frequently. Maxine the secretary mom of Maxine left the family when she relocated from Kitchener Ontario in 1982. Her daughter was then turned over to her grandmother Eleanor. Her younger brother is John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. and an identical twin sister Jacqueline, who is a journalist for a magazine and a TV show host in Canada. Hennessy is a member of a family of Irish French Swedish Italian descent Her mother, however, is mostly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. Stanley Park Senior Public School and Grand River Collegiate Institute both located in Kitchener, Ontario. She also used to perform as an entertainer in Toronto. Hennessy began her acting career along with her sister on Dead Ringers, 1988. According to Gillian Anderson, the actress who won the role, she was shortlisted for the role as Dana Scully in The X-Files. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two sons.