Jill Hennessy

Her family is from Edmonton, a city with Irish, Italian and Swedish heritage, and also French, Ukrainian French as well as Swedish. Jacqueline is her twin sister. She is also an actor. Jill was fluent in several languages as she grew up. It included Italian, French, and Spanish. After she turned twelve years old, Jill became interested being an actor. She started her career in acting in Toronto with David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers playing an escort with his twin sister. She then studied improv-comedy at Second City with Deb Kimmet. After that, she relocated back to New York two years later and signed a contract play the role of Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid in the hit longest-running drama Law & Order. The actress also appeared in films including RoboCop 3 (1998), Ron Howard's The Paper (2000) and I Shot Andy Warhol 1996) during her three-year run. The actress was in several forgettable films over the following years, before landing a starring part in the miniseries uremberg together with Alec Baldwin. Autumn in New York followed the show, along with Exit Wounds. She landed the leading role in the NBC Crime show Crossing Jordan in 2001. In 2007, she won the Gracie Allen Award for "Outstanding female leading actress in a drama series" in appreciation of her work on the series. She married another actor, Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. They have two children. In 2007 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.