Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy, born November 25 in 1968 is a Canadian actress. Her most well-known work is her roles as Claire Kincaid, a US prosecutor, in the television show Law & Order for three seasons. Crossing Jordan was six seasons. Jordan Cavanaugh, the protagonist on Crossing Jordan, lasted six seasons. She has also acted in films like RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted as well as the indie film Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class The Acting Class, which she also co-wrote and directed. Hennessy was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy, John's father was a marketing and meat sales and marketing executive. The job required significant traveling and the family had to move frequently. Maxine her mother, who was Maxine's, died in the year 1982. She left her daughter in the care of Eleanor, her paternal grandmother. John Paul Hennessy Jr. Her younger brother is Jacqueline Hennessy the identical twin who is a journalist in a magazine as well as a host on TV in Canada. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father's side, and mainly Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian and Austrian ancestry from her mother's. She was educated at Stanley Park Senior Public School and was a graduate of Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and busked in the Toronto subway. Hennessy as well as her sister were the first to act as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. According to Gillian Anderson (the actress who got the role) She was selected for Dana Scully's part 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 lasted for three seasons before she left the show in the year 1996.