Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy, born November 25 in 1968 is a Canadian actress from Canada. She is most famous for her role in the role of 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 was also acting in movies such as RoboCop 3 or Most Wanted and independent films like Chutney Popcorn, which she co-directed. Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy was her father. He was a meat vendor and a sales/marketing executive. The job involved lots of travel, which caused frequent family changes. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary who left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be taken care of by her maternal grandmother, Eleanor and her family located in Kitchener, Ontario. She has a younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sister named Jacqueline, who is a magazine writer and TV host in Canada. Hennessy is of Irish, French, Swedish and Italian roots on her father's side and mainly Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian and Austrian ancestry from her mother's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School. Grand River Collegiate Institute was where she graduated. She was a busker in the subway system of Toronto. Hennessy along with her sister and their first acting role was as twin call girls on 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's sister, has stated that she was shortlisted for The X-Files for Dana Scully's part. Hennessy also played the part of Dr. Marie Lazarus on RoboCop 3. In 1993 Dick Wolf signed Hennessy to the role of Claire Kincaid assistant district attorney in the show Law & Order. The role was occupied for three seasons, before she left the show in 1996.