Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy was born on November 25, 1968. She is a Canadian actor, singer and musician. Her most well-known roles are in American television shows Law & Order (where she was Claire Kincaid, a prosecutor) and Crossing Jordan (where she played Jordan Cavanaugh for six seasons). She has also been an actress in films such RoboCop 3: Most Wanted, as well the independent films Chutney Popcorn (which she also co-directed) and The Acting Class (which was written by her). Hennessy was born in Edmonton. John Hennessy was her father. He was a meat vendor and an executive in sales and marketing. This job required lots of travel, which caused frequent family changes. Maxine her secretary mother had to leave the family in 1982. Eleanor, Eleanor's paternal grandmother, looked after her daughter in Kitchener. Her younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and a identical twin sister named Jacqueline, who is an editor for magazines and a TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian roots on her father's side, and most Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian as well as Austrian ancestry on her mother's side. She graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute and Stanley Park Senior Public School. Hennessy's sister and she made their acting debuts as twin callgirls 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 character of Dr. Marie Lazarus on RoboCop 3. In 1993, Dick Wolf signed Hennessy to play the role of Claire Kincaid assistant district attorney in the show Law & Order. The role ran for three seasons. The show ended after 1996.