Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta Canada on November 25th in 1968. She is one of Canada's most famous and wealthiest TV Actresses. She was a part of 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 travelling and led to numerous moves for the family. Maxine the secretary mom of Maxine quit the family after she relocated into Kitchener Ontario in 1982. Her daughter was then turned over to her maternal grandmother Eleanor. Her twin sister Jacqueline is an American magazine writer, and her brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was raised in Canada. Hennessy traces her ancestry to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side, and predominantly Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian from her mother's. Stanley Park Senior Public School as well as Grand River Collegiate Institute both located in Kitchener Ontario. She also used to be an entertainer in Toronto. Hennessy was the first actress to make her debut alongside her sister in Dead Ringers, 1988. Her name was on the short list to play 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. The couple have two children.