Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta in November 25, 1968. She is among Canada's most famous and wealthiest TV actresses. She appeared in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy, her father was a sales/marketing executive and meat salesman. His job demanded frequent travel for his family. In 1982, her mother Maxine had to leave her family and the daughter was cared for in part with Eleanor the maternal aunt who lived in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline is the identical twin brother and an older sister, both of whom write for magazines as well as television show hosts from Canada. Hennessy is of Irish, Swedish, Italian and French descent from her father's side and has mostly Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage in her mother. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School after which she graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to busk in Toronto's subways. Toronto subway. Hennessy began her acting career along with her sister on Dead Ringers, 1988. Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully at The X-Files She claimed that Hennessy was considered for the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple had two children.