Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25 on the 25th of November, 1968) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is most known for her role on the American television series Law & Order, on which she played the prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons and Crossing Jordan, on which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also been an actress in films such as RoboCop 3: Most Wanted as well as the independent film Chutney Popcorn (which she also co-directed) and The Acting Class (which was written by her). Hennessy was born and was raised in Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy her father was an executive in sales and marketing. It required frequent travel that led to numerous family moves. Maxine was her mother. She was a secretary. Her daughter was left behind by Eleanor Her paternal grandmother in Kitchener, Ontario. Her younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline She is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish as well as French, Swedish, Italian and Swedish ancestry from her father. She also has predominantly Ukrainian Roma and Austrian heritage from her mother. She went to 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 and her sister were the first actors to be cast as twin call girls on 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's sister, revealed that she was shortlisted for The X-Files for Dana Scully's part. Hennessy also played the character as 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 show ran for three seasons. She left the show after 1996.