Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy was born on November 25 on the 25th of November, 1968. She is a Canadian singer, actress and musician. Her most memorable role is on American TV's Law & Order where she was the prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons and Crossing Jordan for six. She has also been an actress in films such as RoboCop 3: Most Wanted as well as the independent film Chutney Popcorn (which she also co-directed) and The Acting Class (which was written by her). Hennessy was born and raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy, John's father was a meat and marketing sales and marketing executive. The position required significant travel , which meant the family was required to relocate frequently. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982 leaving her daughter to be raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, located in Kitchener, Ontario. Her younger brother named John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and a identical twin sister, Jacqueline She is a journalist for magazines and a television host 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 was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School. Grand River Collegiate Institute was her graduation. She used to busk in Toronto's subway. Hennessy and her sister were first actors when they appeared as twins in the 1988 film Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's actress, says she was shortlisted for Dana Scully, The X-Files role. She also appeared in the Dead Ringers series in 1988 as twin call girls. Dick Wolf signed Hennessy in 1993 as Claire Kincaid, an assistant district attorney, on the NBC crime drama Law & Order. She played the role for three seasons, leaving the show in the year 1996.