All of TVGuide.com Videos Only

Jill Hennessy

Celebrity

Jill Hennessy: Biography

39 photos

Birth Name: Jillian Hennessy
Birth Place: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/25/1968, Sagittarius
Profession: Actor

User Rating:

(184 ratings)
Add Your Rating:

Although she came to prominence as a no-nonsense assistant district attorney on the long-running crime series Law & Order, this fun-loving, guitar-playing beauty is the antithesis of that serious character. Hennessy appeared in a handful of big- and small-screen roles in her native Canada before moving to New York to pursue acting in the early '90s. In 1993 she made her name on L&O but left after three years to pursue more lively roles. For the rest of the decade, she played supporting parts in a number of independent films before wisely returning to series television in 2001 as a mouthy medical examiner on Crossing Jordan.Jill Hennessy Fast Facts:

Speaks Italian, French, Spanish and German.
Song "The Ballad of Jill Hennessy" by Mollycuddle was written about her.
Used to play guitar and sing in the New York subway for money.
In 1988's Dead Ringers, her first movie role, Hennessy and her twin sister, Jacqueline Hennessy, played twin prostitutes.
Made her Broadway debut in the Buddy Holly musical Buddy in 1990.
Opened Hennessy's Tavern in Northvale, NJ, in 1999.