Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for her character on Law & Order in the role of Claire Kincaid, a US prosecutor, on Law & Order for three seasons. Crossing Jordan was six seasons. Jordan Cavanaugh, the lead character on Crossing Jordan, lasted six seasons. She has also acted as 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 raised in Edmonton. John Hennessy was her father. He was a meat marketer and a sales/marketing executive. This job required lots of travel, which led to frequent family moves. Maxine her secretary mother had to leave the family in 1982. Eleanor, Eleanor's paternal grandmother, took care of her daughter, who lived in Kitchener. John Paul Hennessy Jr. has a younger brother as well as Jacqueline is a twin sister. Jacqueline is host and journalist for a Canadian TV program. Hennessy is of Irish, French, Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side and mainly Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian and Austrian ancestry from her mother's. She was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School. Grand River Collegiate Institute was her graduation. She was a busker in the subway system of Toronto. Hennessy and her sister were the first to appear as twin call girls on 1988's Dead Ringers. She was not selected for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files according to Gillian Anderson, the actress who was eventually offered the role.She appeared on Broadway in the musical Buddy The Buddy Holly Story in 1990. The Buddy Holly Story in 1990.In 1993, she starred in the role of Dr. Marie Lazarus in RoboCop 3.In 1993, Dick Wolf signed Hennessy as the assistant district attorney Claire Kincaid in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. She played the role for three seasons before leaving the show in 1996.



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