Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton in Alberta, Canada on November 25 of 1968. She is among Canada's most famous and wealthiest television actresses. She was in Law and Order. Chris Noth was her co-star. Hennessy was raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy her father worked as a food salesman, sales/marketing manager and required her to travel frequently. The family of her father was always in motion. Maxine Hennessy worked as a secretary in the family, left in 1982. She was raised partly by Eleanor her paternal grandmother. The twin sister Jacqueline is a journalist, while her brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was raised in Canada. Hennessy is of Irish French Swedish and Italian family ancestry from her father's side and mostly Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian heritage on her mother's side. She attended Grand River Collegiate Institute, Kitchener Ontario. She used to act in Toronto's subway. Hennessy began her acting career along with her sister on Dead Ringers, 1988. Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully at The X-Files, claimed that Hennessy was considered for the part. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two sons.