Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a television actress for more than 30 years. Her birthplace was 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 and sales/marketing executive who required extensive travelling and led to numerous shifts of the entire family. Maxine Her mother, who was her secretary left the family when she moved to Kitchener Ontario in 1982. She then handed her daughter over to her maternal grandmother Eleanor. Jacqueline is the identical twin brother, as well as an older sister, both of whom write for magazines as well as television host of shows in Canada. Her father is Irish as well as the Swedish. Her mother is an amalgamation of Ukrainian Roma, Austrian and Austrian. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School where she graduated Grand River Collegiate Institute and was a busker in Toronto. Hennessy was a twin on Dead Ringers with her older sister. The actress was not short-listed for the part 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. They have two sons.