Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's most successful TV actresses was born on the 25th of 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. Her father, John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive a job that required considerable travelling and led to numerous relocations for the family. The mother, Maxine was a secretary who was a secretary who left her family members in the year 1982,. She left her daughter partially fostered by her paternal grandmother Eleanor who lives in Kitchener Ontario. Her twin sister Jacqueline is an American magazine writer, and her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was born in Canada. Hennessy is born in Sweden and has Irish, Italian and French descent at the end of her father's line and carries a majority of Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage on her mother. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School, graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and was a busker in Toronto. Hennessy as well as her sister, were actors for the first time as the twins of callers in 1988's Dead Ringers. Her name was on the short list for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files According to Gillian Anderson the actress who was eventually cast in the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple have two sons.