Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a actor on TV for more than 30 years. She was born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25 of 1968. She was in Law and Order with She starred in Law and Order with Chris Noth.. Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman, and executive in sales/marketing who required extensive traveling and led to frequent moves for the family. Maxine Hennessy, who worked as a secretary in the family, left in 1982, and was raised partly by Eleanor her paternal grandmother. The twin sister Jacqueline is a magazine writer, and her brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was born in Canada. Hennessy is a member of a family that is of Irish French Swedish Italian descent Her mother, however, is mainly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and busked in Toronto. Hennessy along with her sister also were actors for the first time as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. Based on 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 had two children.