Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's richest TV Actresses was born 25 November 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. The show she was on was 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. This job required constant travel for his family. Maxine is a secretary, who was also the mother of her son, left the family in 1982. Her daughter Eleanor was her caregiver at home in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline Hennessy, a identical twin and magazine writer from Canada and John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. are her twins. Hennessy is a member of a family of Irish French Swedish Italian descent, while her mother is predominantly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, Kitchener Ontario. She used to perform in Toronto's subway. Hennessy as well as her sister, had their first acting role as the twins of callers in the 1988 film Dead Ringers. According to Gillian Anderson, the actress who was chosen for the role, she was nominated for the role in Dana Scully in The X-Files. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two sons.