Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy is a Canadian actor and singer from Canada. Her most well-known roles are in American television series Law & Order (where she was Claire Kincaid, a prosecutor) and Crossing Jordan (where she played Jordan Cavanaugh for six seasons). 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 a native of Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy, John's father was a meat and marketing sales/marketing executive. The position required significant travel and meant that the family was required to relocate frequently. Maxine, Maxine's secretary mother was the last to leave the family in 1982. Eleanor, Eleanor's paternal grandmother, cared for her daughter, who lived in Kitchener. John Paul Hennessy Jr. is her younger brother. Jacqueline Hennessy is her identical twin sister. Jacqueline is an editor for a magazine in Canada. Hennessy is a mix of Irish, French French, Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side and predominantly 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 on the Toronto subway. Hennessy was the younger sister of her brother. They made their acting debut in 1988 as twin call-girls in Dead Ringers. According to Gillian Anderson (the actress who was cast in the role) she was a finalist for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files. In 1993, Hennessy was signed by Dick Wolf as Claire Kincaid an assistant district attorney on the NBC crime drama Law & Order. The role was occupied for three seasons before she was fired in 1996.



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