Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy, born November 25th, 1968 from Edmonton Alberta Canada is one the most famous and wealthy TV Actress. The actress was in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy was a meat salesman as well as a sales/marketing executive, who required extensive traveling and led to frequent shifts of the family. Her mother Maxine a secretary quit the family in 1982, leaving her daughter partially taken care of by her maternal grandmother Eleanor who lives in Kitchener Ontario. There is a younger brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. and a identical twin sister Jacqueline She is a writer for magazines and television host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish French Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side and mostly Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian family ancestry from her mother's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School where she graduated Grand River Collegiate Institute and busked in Toronto. Hennessy and her sister began their acting career with Dead Ringers 1988 as twin callgirls. She was short listed for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files according to Gillian Anderson the actress who eventually got the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple had two children.