Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy is a Canadian actress and singer. Most well-known for her roles in American television series Law & Order (where she played Claire Kincaid, a prosecutor) and Crossing Jordan (where she played Jordan Cavanaugh for six seasons). She also appeared as an actress in films like RoboCop 3: Most Wanted, as well the independent film Chutney Popcorn (which she also co-directed) and The Acting Class (which was written by her). Hennessy was a native of Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy was her father. He was a meat marketer and an executive in sales and marketing. This job required lots of travel, which caused frequent family changes. Maxine her mother, who was Maxine's passed away in the year 1982. She left her daughter under the care of Eleanor her paternal grandmother. She has a younger brother named John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and a identical twin sister, Jacqueline, who is an editor for magazines and a TV host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian heritage on her father's side, and mostly Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian as well as Austrian ancestry on her mother's. After graduating from Grand River Collegiate Institute (both in Kitchener), she was a student at Stanley Park Senior Public School. She also took part in the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister were the first to appear as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's actress, has revealed that she was nominated for Dana Scully, The X-Files role. She also appeared on the 1988 film Dead Ringers as twin call girls. Dick Wolf signed Hennessy in 1993 to play Claire Kincaid, an assistant district attorney in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. The role lasted three seasons. She left the show in 1996.