Jillian Noel "Jill" Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a
Canadian actress and musician known for her
television roles on
Law & Order and
Crossing Jordan.
Early life
Hennessy was born in
Edmonton,
Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in
Kitchener, Ontario.
[Jill Hennessy Biography - Yahoo! Movies][Film Reference.com:Jill Hennessy] She has a younger brother, John Paul Hennessy Jr.( also known as J.P.), and an identical
twin sister,
Jacqueline, who is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has
Irish,
French,
Swedish and
Italian ancestry on her father's side, and mostly
Ukrainian, as well as
Austrian, ancestry on her mother's.
[Jill Hennessy chat - baltimoresun.com] She graduated from
Grand River Collegiate Institute in
Kitchener, Ontario and used to
busk in the
Toronto Subway.
Career
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