Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy, born November 25 in 1968 was a Canadian actor from Canada. She is best known for her role as Claire Kincaid, a US prosecutor in the television show Law & Order for three seasons. Crossing Jordan was six seasons. Jordan Cavanaugh, the main character in Crossing Jordan, lasted six seasons. She also appeared in movies such as RoboCop 3 & Most Wanted and independent films Chutney Popcorn & The Acting Class. The movie was directed and written by her. Hennessy was born in Edmonton. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman as well as a sales/marketing executive. It was a job which required a lot of travel, and caused frequent changes for the entire family. Maxine Hernnessy was Maxine's mother and secretary, passed away in the year 1982. Eleanor her paternal grandmother from Kitchener (Ontario) played a part in the raising of her daughter. John Paul Hennessy Jr. has a younger brother and Jacqueline is a twin sister. Jacqueline works as an anchor and journalist on the Canadian television program. Hennessy is a mixture of Irish, French French, Swedish and Italian roots on her father's side, and most Ukrainian Roma on the mother's. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, both located in Kitchener, Ontario, and utilized to be a busker on the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister made their acting debut as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. According to Gillian Anderson (the actress who was cast in the role) She was selected for Dana Scully's role in The X-Files. In 1993, Hennessy was signed by Dick Wolf as Claire Kincaid, assistant district attorney in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. She played the role for three seasons before resigning the show in 1996.



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