Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy, born November 25th, 1968 in Edmonton Alberta Canada is one the richest and most well-known TV Actress. She was a part of Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy her father worked as a food salesman and director of sales and marketing, which required her to travel a lot. Her family was often moving. In 1982, her mother Maxine left her family and her daughter was raised partly by Eleanor her maternal grandmother in Kitchener Ontario. The twin sister Jacqueline is a journalist, while her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was raised in Canada. Hennessy has a father of Irish French Swedish Italian descent Her mother, however, is mainly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and performed in Toronto. Hennessy together with her sister had their first acting experience in Dead Ringers 1988 as twin callgirls. Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully at The X-Files said that she was considered to play the character. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two sons.