Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton in Alberta, Canada on November 25th of 1968. She is one of Canada's most famous and wealthiest television actresses. 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. His job demanded regular travel for the family. Maxine was a secretary and was the mother of the child she lost in 1982. The daughter Eleanor raised her in Kitchener Ontario. Her younger brother is John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. and a identical twin sister Jacqueline She is a journalist for a magazine and a television show host in Canada. Hennessy has a lineage that goes back to Irish French Swedish Italian on her father's side, as well as to mostly 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 perform busking on the Toronto subway. Hennessy made her acting debut alongside her sister in Dead Ringers, 1988. The actress was not short-listed for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files According to Gillian Anderson the actress who eventually got the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two sons.