Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's highest-paid TV actors was born on November 25, 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta. She was a part of Law and Order alongside Chris Noth. Hennessy is from Edmonton, Alberta. Her father John Hennessy was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive which required a lot of traveling and led to frequent relocations for the entire family. Maxine, a secretary who was the mother of the child she lost in 1982. Her daughter Eleanor raised her in Kitchener Ontario. Jacqueline has an identical twin brother, as well as one younger sister. Both write for magazines as well as television show hosts in Canada. Hennessy is born in Sweden and has Irish, Italian and French descent on the father's end and has mostly Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage on her mother. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and busked in Toronto. Hennessy made her acting debut alongside her sister in Dead Ringers, 1988. Gillian Anderson who played the character of Dana Scully, said that she was short-listed. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple had two kids.