Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25 on the 25th of November, 1968) is a Canadian actor and singer from Canada. Her most well-known role is on American TV's Law & Order where she was the prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons and Crossing Jordan for six. She was also in films like RoboCop 3 & Most Wanted and in independent film Chutney Popcorn & The Acting Class. The movie was directed and written by her. Hennessy was born in Edmonton. John Hennessy was her father. He was a meat marketer and an executive in sales and marketing. This job required a lot of travel and caused frequent family changes. Maxine, Maxine's secretary mother was the last to leave the family in 1982. Eleanor, Eleanor's paternal grandmother, looked after her daughter in Kitchener. John Paul Hennessy Jr. is her younger brother. is Jacqueline Hennessy the identical twin, who is a journalist in a magazine and a TV host in Canada. Hennessy is a mixture of Irish, French French, Swedish and Italian roots from her father's side as well as mostly Ukrainian Roma on the mother's. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute, both of which are located in Kitchener, Ontario, and utilized to be a busker in the Toronto subway. Hennessy as well as her sister, and her first performance was as twin call-girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's actress, claims she was shortlisted for Dana Scully, The X-Files role. She also appeared in the 1988 film Dead Ringers as twin call girls. Dick Wolf signed Hennessy in 1993 for the role of Claire Kincaid, an assistant district attorney, in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. The role lasted for three seasons, and then being removed from the series as an actor in 1996.