Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta in November 25, 1968. She is one of Canada's richest and most well-known TV Actresses. She appeared in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy worked as a meat seller and a marketing executive. This job required frequent travel which meant that the Hennessy family frequently relocated. The mother, Maxine an administrator, was a secretary who left their family back in 1982, leaving her daughter fostered by her paternal grandmother Eleanor living in Kitchener Ontario. She has a younger brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. as well as an identical twin sister Jacqueline She is a journalist for a magazine and a television show hosts in Canada. Hennessy is of Irish, Swedish, Italian and French descent on the father's end and is mainly Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage from her mother. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School then completed her studies at Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to be a busker on Toronto's subways. Toronto subway. Hennessy was a twin in Dead Ringers with her older sister. Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully at The X-Files said that she was considered for the part. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.