Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy has been a television actress for more than 30 years. Her birthplace was in Edmonton Alberta Canada, on November 25, 1968. She appeared in Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy her father worked as a food salesman and director of sales and marketing, which required her to travel a lot. The family of her father was always on the move. The mother, Maxine was a secretary who quit the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially taken care of by her maternal grandmother Eleanor living in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline has an identical twin brother and an older sister, both of whom write for magazines as well as television show hosts from Canada. Hennessy is of Irish French Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father's side and mostly Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian heritage on her mother's side. Stanley Park Senior Public School located in Toronto Ontario. Grand River Collegiate Institute. Hennessy, along with her sister had their first acting experience in Dead Ringers 1988 as twin callgirls. Her name was on the short list for the part of Dana Scully on The X-Files according to Gillian Anderson the actress who ultimately got the part. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple have two sons.