Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's highest-paid TV actors was born on November 25, 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta. She starred with Chris Noth in Law and Order. Hennessy's father was named John Hennessy. John Hennessy, her father was a sales executive/marketing executive as well as a meat salesman. The job involved regular travel for the family. Maxine was a secretary and was mother to the child she lost in 1982. Their daughter Eleanor raised her at home in Kitchener Ontario. She has a younger brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. and a identical twin sister Jacqueline, who is a writer for magazines and television show hosts in Canada. Hennessy comes from a family of Irish French Swedish Italian descent Her mother, however, is mostly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and was a busker in Toronto. Hennessy was the first actress to make her debut with her sister in Dead Ringers, 1988. Gillian Anderson, an actress who got the part, said that she was on the list in the search for Dana Scully. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two kids together.