Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a actor on TV for more than 30 years. Her birthplace was in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25 of 1968. She was in Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy, her father was a sales/marketing executive and meat salesman. The job involved regular travel for the family. In 1982, the mother Maxine left her family and the daughter was cared for mostly through Eleanor her maternal grandmother who lived in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline Hennessy is an identical twin and magazine writer in Canada as well as John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. are her siblings. 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 mom's. 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 the Toronto subway. Hennessy made her acting debut along with her sister on Dead Ringers, 1988. Her name was on the short list for the role 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 kids together.