Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's highest-paid TV actors was born 25 November 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. She was a part of Law and Order with She was a part of Law and Order with Chris Noth.. Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. 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 frequently in motion. The mother, Maxine a secretary left their family back in 1982. She left her daughter partially raised by her paternal grandmother Eleanor in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline Hennessy, a identical twin who is a magazine writer from Canada as well as John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. are her brothers. Hennessy is of Irish, Swedish, Italian and French descent from her father's side and carries a majority of Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage from her mother. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School and later completed her studies at Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to busk on the Toronto subway. Hennessy as well as her sister, were actors for the first time as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. Her name was on the short list for the part of Dana Scully on The X-Files According to Gillian Anderson the actress who eventually got the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple had two children.