Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy (19 November 1975) is a Canadian actor and singer. Her most well-known roles include American television's Law & Order where she was the prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons and Crossing Jordan for six. She has also acted on films such as RoboCop 3 (most wanted) and Crossing Jordan (which she wrote and directed). Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy her father was a salesman and marketing executive. He was a frequent traveler which resulted in numerous family relocations. Maxine her secretary mother was the last to leave the family in 1982. Eleanor, Eleanor's paternal grandmother, took care of her daughter, who lived in Kitchener. Her younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sister named Jacqueline, who is an editor for magazines and a TV host in Canada. Hennessy is of Irish, French, Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side and most Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian as well as Austrian ancestry on her mother's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School and was a graduate of Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and busked in the Toronto subway. Hennessy was the younger sister of her brother who made their debut on stage in 1988 as twin call-girls in Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's sister, stated that she was chosen for The X-Files for Dana Scully's role. Hennessy also played the part as Dr. Marie Lazarus on RoboCop 3. In 1993 Dick Wolf signed Hennessy to the role as Claire Kincaid assistant district attorney on Law & Order. She played the character for three seasons, and was fired in the year 1996.



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