Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy is a Canadian actor and singer from Canada. Her appearances on American TV shows such as Law & Order were three-seasons long. Crossing Jordan lasted six seasons. Jordan Cavanaugh was her lead character. She was also in films such as RoboCop 3 & Most Wanted as well as independent film Chutney Popcorn & The Acting Class. The latter was also written and directed by her. Hennessy was brought up in Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy, John's father was a marketing and meat sales/marketing executive. The position required significant travel and meant that the family had to move frequently. The mother of her child, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982 leaving her daughter partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor who lives located in Kitchener, Ontario. John Paul Hennessy Jr. is her younger brother. Jacqueline is her identical twin sister. She is a journalist from Canada and host. Hennessy has Irish and French, Swedish, Italian and Swedish heritage from her father. mostly Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage from her mother. She went to Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, both located in Kitchener, Ontario, and was busking in the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister were the first to appear as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's actress, says she was shortlisted for Dana Scully, The X-Files role. She also appeared on 1988's Dead Ringers as twin call girls. Dick Wolf signed Hennessy in 1993 to play Claire Kincaid, an assistant district attorney in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. She played the character for three seasons before leaving the show in 1996.