Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy was born on November 25, 1968. She is a Canadian singer, actress and musician. Her most notable roles include those on American TV's Law & Order where she was the prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons and Crossing Jordan for six. She was also a part of films such as RoboCop 3 & Most Wanted as well as independent film Chutney Popcorn & The Acting Class. The film was directed and written by her. Hennessy was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy was her father. He was a meat marketer and an executive in sales and marketing. The job involved a lot of travel and resulted in frequent family relocations. Maxine the secretary mother of Maxine, left the family in 1982. Eleanor, Eleanor's paternal grandmother, took care of her daughter in Kitchener. John Paul Hennessy Jr. is her younger brother. Jacqueline Hennessy is her identical twin sister. Jacqueline is a magazine writer in Canada. Hennessy's ancestral ancestry includes Irish, French, Swedish and Italian descent on her father's and most Ukrainian Roma on her mother's. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, both of which are located in Kitchener, Ontario, and used to busk in the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister were first actors when they appeared as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, who was the actress chosen to play the role, said that she was shortlisted to be the character Dana Scully in The X-Files. The role lasted for three seasons, before ending the show as an actress in 1996.