Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's richest TV Actresses was born on November 25, 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. She appeared alongside Chris Noth in Law and Order. The father of Hennessy was John Hennessy. Her father, John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive who required extensive traveling and led to frequent moves for the entire family. Maxine Her mother, who was her secretary was the last of her family members when she relocated to Kitchener Ontario in 1982. She then handed her daughter over to her maternal grandmother Eleanor. Her twin sister Jacqueline is a magazine editor, and her older brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. was raised in Canada. Hennessy is of Irish, Swedish, Italian and French descent at the end of her father's line and carries a majority of Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage on her mother. She graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, Kitchener Ontario. She used to perform in Toronto's subway. Hennessy was twins in Dead Ringers with her older sister. Gillian Anderson, an actress who ended up getting the role said she was on the list for Dana Scully. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple have two sons.