Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy one of Canada's highest-paid TV actors was born 25 November 1968, in Edmonton Alberta. The show she was on was Law and Order She was on Law and Order along with Chris Noth. Hennessy, who was born in Edmonton Alberta was the star on the series. John Hennessy, her father was a sales executive/marketing executive as well as a meat salesman. The job involved constant travel for his family. The mother, Maxine a secretary quit their family back in 1982 leaving her daughter fostered by her paternal grandmother Eleanor who lives in Kitchener Ontario. There is a younger brother John Paul J.P. Hennessy Jr. and an identical twin sister Jacqueline She is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy comes from a family with Irish French Swedish Italian descent, while her mother is mostly Ukrainian Roma with Austrian roots. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School after which she was a graduate of Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario and used to be a busker in the Toronto subway. Hennessy was a twin on Dead Ringers with her older sister. The actress was not short-listed for the part of Dana Scully on The X-Files as per Gillian Anderson the actress who eventually got the role. She married Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple have two sons.