Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a television actress for more than 30 years. She was born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25, 1968. She was a part of Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman as well as a sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable traveling and led to frequent moves for the entire family. Maxine Her mother, who was her secretary was the last of her family members when she moved from Kitchener Ontario in 1982. She then handed her daughter over to her maternal grandmother Eleanor. Jacqueline has an identical twin brother, as well as one younger sister, both of whom are magazine writers and television host of shows in Canada. Hennessy traces her ancestry to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side and to a majority of Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian on her mother's side. Stanley Park Senior Public School in Toronto Ontario. Grand River Collegiate Institute. Hennessy as well as her sister, had their first acting role as twin call girls in the 1988 film Dead Ringers. Based on Gillian Anderson, the actress who won the role, she was shortlisted for the part of Dana Scully in The X-Files. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.