Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy is a Canadian actor and singer from Canada. She is most famous for her role as Claire Kincaid, a US prosecutor, on Law & Order for three seasons. Crossing Jordan was six seasons. Jordan Cavanaugh, the main character in Crossing Jordan, lasted six seasons. She also appeared as an actor in films like RoboCop 3 or Most Wanted and independent films Chutney Popcorn, which she co-directed. Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. John Hennessy, her father, was a meat-salesman and an executive in sales and marketing. His job required extensive travel, which resulted in several moves for the entire family. The mother of her child, Maxine, a secretary was a divorcee in 1982, leaving her daughter to be taken care of by her maternal grandmother, Eleanor who lives located in Kitchener, Ontario. John Paul Hennessy Jr. has a younger brother and Jacqueline, a twin sister. Jacqueline works as a journalist and host on a Canadian TV program. Hennessy is of Irish, French and Swedish origin, and has Ukrainian Roma and Austrian ancestry. She was educated at Stanley Park Senior Public School and graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and busked in the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister were among the first to appear as twin call girls on 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's sister, has stated that she was chosen for The X-Files for Dana Scully's part. Hennessy also played the character of Dr. Marie Lazarus on RoboCop 3. In 1993 Dick Wolf signed Hennessy to play the role of Claire Kincaid assistant district attorney in the show Law & Order. The role was played by her for three seasons, and quit the show in 1996.