Jill Hennessy (Actor) – Overview, Biography

Name:Jill Hennessy
Occupation: Actor
Gender:Female
Height:173 cm (5′ 9”)
Birth Day: November 25,
1968
Age: 54
Birth Place: Edmonton,
Canada
Zodiac Sign:Sagittarius

Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy was born on November 25, 1968 in Edmonton, Canada (54 years old). Jill Hennessy is an Actor, zodiac sign: Sagittarius. Nationality: Canada. Approx. Net Worth: $12 Million.

Trivia

She played A.D.A. Claire Kincaid on Law & Order.

Net Worth 2020

$12 Million
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Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
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Before Fame

In her youth, she would commonly busk, or street perform in the Toronto Subway.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1982

Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontario. She has a younger brother, John Paul “J.P.” Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline, who is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father’s side, and mostly Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian, ancestry on her mother’s. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, both in Kitchener, Ontario, and used to busk in the Toronto subway.

1990

She appeared on Broadway in the musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story in 1990.

1993

In 1993, she appeared as Dr. Marie Lazarus in RoboCop 3.

In 1993, Dick Wolf signed Hennessy as assistant district attorney Claire Kincaid in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. She played the role for three seasons, leaving the show in 1996

1999

In 1999, she appeared as Lisa in Chutney Popcorn. In 2000, Hennessy wrote, produced, and jointly directed (with Elizabeth Holder) an independent film mockumentary titled The Acting Class, which looked at the trials and tribulations of a dysfunctional acting class. The film co-starred her identical twin sister Jacqueline, and included cameo appearances from a number of Hennessy’s former Law & Order co-stars. She also starred in the film Nuremberg, as Elsie Douglas.

2001

In 2001, she portrayed Jackie Kennedy in the film Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot. That same year she appeared in a small role in the Steven Seagal action film Exit Wounds, she received particular praise from critic Owen Gleiberman who said “With the right role, Hennessy might just be a movie star.” In 2003, she made a cameo appearance in the film Abby Singer. From 2001 to 2007, she starred on the TV show Crossing Jordan as title character Jordan Cavanaugh. She also played the wife of Tim Allen’s character in the 2007 film Wild Hogs. On June 9, 2007, she received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Hennessy is multi-lingual, speaking English, Italian, French, Spanish and German. Hennessy plays the guitar and sings, and enjoys riding motorcycles with her husband, Paolo Mastropietro, to whom she has been married since 2000. They had a second marriage ceremony in January 2001, which took place at New York City Hall with Mayor Rudy Giuliani officiating. Their son Marco was born on September 17, 2003, and a second son, Gianni, was born on November 21, 2007.

2009

During sessions in Austin, Texas, Hennessy recorded the album Ghost in My Head, which was released in June 2009. She performed as a guest of the Indigo Girls on a November 2009 show of Mountain Stage and was the focus of a show for herself later that same month. She performed on the Village Stage of the 2010 edition of Lilith Fair.

2010

Hennessy starred in the independent crime thriller, Small Town Murder Songs, in 2010. She also appeared as a veterinarian in the HBO series Luck, while serving as an endorser of Zaxby’s “Zalads” in a pair of television commercials during 2012.

2015

In 2015, Hennessy appeared in several episodes of Madam Secretary. In October of that year, her second album, I Do, was released.

2018

In 2018, she appeared on the Michael Weatherly series Bull as the mother of the deceased hacker character Cable McCrory.

🎂 Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Jill Hennessy is 54 years, 0 months and 7 days old. Jill Hennessy will celebrate 55th birthday on a Saturday 25th of November 2023.

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