Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a television actress for more than 30 years. Her birthplace was in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25 of 1968. She appeared alongside Chris Noth in Law and Order. Her father was John Hennessy. John Hennessy's position as a salesman for meat and a marketing executive meant a amount of travel, so the family had to move often. Maxine Hennessy, who worked as a secretary within the family, left in 1982 and she was raised partly by Eleanor The paternal grandmother of her. Jacqueline Hennessy, an identical twin, a writer for magazines who lives in Canada and John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. are her twins. Hennessy has a father with Irish French Swedish Italian descent, while her mother is mainly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School and later graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to perform busking on the Toronto subway. Hennessy was a twin in Dead Ringers with her older sister. 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. They have two sons.