Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta in November 25th, 1968. She is among Canada's most famous and wealthiest television actresses. She appeared alongside Chris Noth in Law and Order. Hennessy's father was John Hennessy. John Hennessy's position as a salesman for meat and a marketing manager required a large quantity of travelling, which meant that the family was required to relocate often. Maxine Hennessy, who worked as a secretary in the family left in 1982, and was raised partly by Eleanor her paternal grandmother. She has a younger brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. and an identical twin sister Jacqueline she is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has a lineage that goes back to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side, and predominantly Ukrainian Roma along with Austrian on her mother's side. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School then completed her studies at Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to be a busker in Toronto's subways. Toronto subway. Hennessy as well as her sister, were actors for the first time as two call-girls in the 1988 film Dead Ringers. The actress was not short-listed for the part of Dana Scully on The X-Files as per Gillian Anderson the actress who eventually got the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple have two sons.