Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta in November 25th in 1968. She is among Canada's most famous and wealthiest television actresses. She starred with Chris Noth in Law and Order. Hennessy's father was John Hennessy. John Hennessy, her father was a sales executive/marketing executive as well as a meat salesman. His job demanded frequent travel for his family. The mother, Maxine an administrator, was a secretary who left her family members in the year 1982,. She left her daughter raised by her paternal grandmother Eleanor living in Kitchener Ontario. Her twin sister Jacqueline is an American journalist, while her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was raised in Canada. Hennessy is of Irish French Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father's side, and mainly Ukrainian Roma as well as Austrian heritage on her mother's side. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School after which she graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to perform busking on her local Toronto subway. Hennessy along with her sister also were actors for the first time as the twins of callers in the 1988 film Dead Ringers. As per Gillian Anderson, the actress who took the lead role she was shortlisted to play the part as Dana Scully in The X-Files. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two children.