Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's most successful TV actresses was born 25 November 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta. She appeared in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy, her father was a marketing executive in sales and meat salesman. His job demanded constant travel for his family. Maxine Hennessy, who worked as a secretary in the family moved out in 1982. She was raised partly by Eleanor her paternal grandmother. She has a twin sister Jacqueline is an American magazine editor, and her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was born in Canada. Hennessy is from Sweden, Irish, Italian and French descent from her father's side and carries a majority of Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage in her mother. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School after which she graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to busk in Toronto's subways. Toronto subway. Hennessy was a twin in Dead Ringers with her older sister. She was 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. The couple has two sons.