Jillian Noel "Jill" Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and musician. She is most known for her roles on the American television series Law & Order, on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and Crossing Jordan, in which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also acted in films such as RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted, and the independent films Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class, the latter of which she also wrote and co-directed.
Early life
Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontario. She has a younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline, who is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father's side, and mostly Ukrainian Gypsy, as well as Austrian, ancestry on her mother's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, then graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and used to busk in the Toronto subway.
A former candidate for preselection for the federal seats of Holt and Isaacs, Hennessy is a former State President of the Victorian Labor Party. When state minister and Altona MLA Lynne Kosky resigned early in 2010, Hennessy won endorsement for Labor preselection. She was elected to the seat in the by-election, but Labor suffered a large swing to the Liberal Party.
"I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment."
"To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence, ... and more confidence to be more bare."
"It's a new gown based on one of Jackie Kennedy's favorite gowns. It was one of the only ones she ever wore more than once,"
"She's dysfunctional but also very strong, pro-active, comedic - yet dark."
"Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!"
"I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through."
"I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through."
"When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes."
"To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare."
"Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head."
"To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground."
"I DO" Video - shot at the iconic Jersey Shore. New album "I DO" available everywhere now.
published: 27 Oct 2015
Jill Hennessy - "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen live from Gallarate, Italy
Jill covers "Thunder Road" live from Piazza Garibaldi in Gallarate, Italy with lead guitarist Robbie Gjersoe
published: 15 Jul 2011
Jill Hennessy - 2007 Canada's Walk of Fame Tribute Show
Jill Hennessy's acceptance speech at the 2007 Canada's Walk of Fame Tribute Show.
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published: 13 May 2014
‘City on a Hill’ with Scene Stealer Jill Hennessy | New York Live TV
Get a closer look at the Showtime captivating crime drama as Jill Hennessy tells us all about the series that she stars in alongside Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge.
Jill Hennessy - "No Surrender" by Bruce Springsteen
Jill covers "No Surrender" live at The Strand Center for the Arts in Lakewood, NJ
published: 11 Dec 2015
The Sit-Down: Jill Hennessy
The actor previews season 2 of Showtime's "City On A HIll" and talks with DJ Sixsmith about doing a kissing scene with Kevin Bacon and singing on the show.
#Interview #JillHennessy
published: 24 Mar 2021
Jill and Jaqueline Hennessy busking during TIFF 2010
Read more from Jill at http://natpo.st/bipN4q
Actress Jill Hennessy started her entertainment career on Toronto's subways as a busker. So now, with her new film, Small Town Murder Songs, premiering at TIFF, and her new album, The Ghost In My Head, in store, National Post's Brad Frenette and John Richardson asked Hennessy to return to Toronto's streets to busk during the film festival. And as a bonus, her twin sister and W Network personality, Jacqueline Hennessy, joined her. Camera & Edit: John Richardson
Jill Hennessy's acceptance speech at the 2007 Canada's Walk of Fame Tribute Show.
Jill's bio: http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/2007/jill-hennessy
Fo...
Jill Hennessy's acceptance speech at the 2007 Canada's Walk of Fame Tribute Show.
Jill's bio: http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/2007/jill-hennessy
Follow Canada's Walk of Fame on:
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Jill Hennessy's acceptance speech at the 2007 Canada's Walk of Fame Tribute Show.
Jill's bio: http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/2007/jill-hennessy
Follow Canada's Walk of Fame on:
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Get a closer look at the Showtime captivating crime drama as Jill Hennessy tells us all about the series that she stars in alongside Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge...
Get a closer look at the Showtime captivating crime drama as Jill Hennessy tells us all about the series that she stars in alongside Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge.
Get a closer look at the Showtime captivating crime drama as Jill Hennessy tells us all about the series that she stars in alongside Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge.
The actor previews season 2 of Showtime's "City On A HIll" and talks with DJ Sixsmith about doing a kissing scene with Kevin Bacon and singing on the show.
#In...
The actor previews season 2 of Showtime's "City On A HIll" and talks with DJ Sixsmith about doing a kissing scene with Kevin Bacon and singing on the show.
#Interview #JillHennessy
The actor previews season 2 of Showtime's "City On A HIll" and talks with DJ Sixsmith about doing a kissing scene with Kevin Bacon and singing on the show.
#Interview #JillHennessy
Read more from Jill at http://natpo.st/bipN4q
Actress Jill Hennessy started her entertainment career on Toronto's subways as a busker. So now, with her new fil...
Read more from Jill at http://natpo.st/bipN4q
Actress Jill Hennessy started her entertainment career on Toronto's subways as a busker. So now, with her new film, Small Town Murder Songs, premiering at TIFF, and her new album, The Ghost In My Head, in store, National Post's Brad Frenette and John Richardson asked Hennessy to return to Toronto's streets to busk during the film festival. And as a bonus, her twin sister and W Network personality, Jacqueline Hennessy, joined her. Camera & Edit: John Richardson
Read more from Jill at http://natpo.st/bipN4q
Actress Jill Hennessy started her entertainment career on Toronto's subways as a busker. So now, with her new film, Small Town Murder Songs, premiering at TIFF, and her new album, The Ghost In My Head, in store, National Post's Brad Frenette and John Richardson asked Hennessy to return to Toronto's streets to busk during the film festival. And as a bonus, her twin sister and W Network personality, Jacqueline Hennessy, joined her. Camera & Edit: John Richardson
Jill Hennessy's acceptance speech at the 2007 Canada's Walk of Fame Tribute Show.
Jill's bio: http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/2007/jill-hennessy
Follow Canada's Walk of Fame on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cwofame
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/canadaswalkoffame
Instagram: http://instagram.com/cwofame
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/cwofame/
Official site: http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com
Get a closer look at the Showtime captivating crime drama as Jill Hennessy tells us all about the series that she stars in alongside Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge.
The actor previews season 2 of Showtime's "City On A HIll" and talks with DJ Sixsmith about doing a kissing scene with Kevin Bacon and singing on the show.
#Interview #JillHennessy
Read more from Jill at http://natpo.st/bipN4q
Actress Jill Hennessy started her entertainment career on Toronto's subways as a busker. So now, with her new film, Small Town Murder Songs, premiering at TIFF, and her new album, The Ghost In My Head, in store, National Post's Brad Frenette and John Richardson asked Hennessy to return to Toronto's streets to busk during the film festival. And as a bonus, her twin sister and W Network personality, Jacqueline Hennessy, joined her. Camera & Edit: John Richardson
Jillian Noel "Jill" Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and musician. She is most known for her roles on the American television series Law & Order, on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and Crossing Jordan, in which she played the lead character, Jordan Cavanaugh, for six seasons. She has also acted in films such as RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted, and the independent films Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class, the latter of which she also wrote and co-directed.
Early life
Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener, Ontario. She has a younger brother, John Paul "J.P." Hennessy, Jr., and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline, who is a magazine writer and TV show host in Canada. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father's side, and mostly Ukrainian Gypsy, as well as Austrian, ancestry on her mother's. She attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, then graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and used to busk in the Toronto subway.
where are you going? could i meet you? got a late shift tonight i’d feel better if i could go with you - to the rail… up the stairs… to the perfumed back room where the girls all comb their hair - to the bar with black light she downs shots to feel right about the business suits, the laughing men, the hungry eyes, she turns again to make sure that i’m still waiting there by the door then she dances some more, all alone on the floor erin doesn’t like to be alone so i play her bodyguard ‘til she gets home - her platinum hair in a broken band, her cigarette lit, we walk hand in hand and catch the night train and try to laugh all the truth away - she says how do you do it? i don’t think i’m smart - i got no one behind me, i can’t feel my heart but i try to use whatever god gave me, try to save up my money and someday maybe i won’t hear my father’s footsteps behind my door – i won’t hear them no more so she dances some more, high heels scraping the floor she never talked about you in those 3 am calls when she’d throw her new plates at her sea foam green walls trying to buy some new lies from that smug pusher-whore with his preppy blond hair who i kicked out the door, her pretty blue eyes ringed in black and red as she crumples again at the foot of her bed but I know…what you did and she dances some more, all alone on the floor, her tired ballet for the poor, and i just wait by the door
Today is Monday, Nov. 25, the 330th day of 2024. There are 36 days left in the year. Today in history.. On Nov. 25, 1963, the body of PresidentJohn F ... Also on this date. ... Today’s Birthdays ... ActorJohn Larroquette is 77 ... Actor Jill Hennessy is 56 ... .
Photo. EverettCollection. This will be a day long remembered ... He’ll be greatly missed ... Below are more tributes to the late actor ... “Jill, I hear you’re Canadian ... Rest in power, sir.#jamesearljones— Jill Hennessy (@JillHennessy) September 9, 2024 ... ....
A.D.A Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) suspects something is up between the two, but McCoy does not confide that he let the other team win one in this case ...Sam Waterston, Jill Hennessy, Jerry Orbach and ...
Even more fun is the moment when McCoy stands up for Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) after Adam Schiff (Steven Hill) demands her removal from the case over a previous plea bargain she made with the ...
Sony is still building its own universe of Spider-Man characters, and while the success of the Venom films and the near-universal acclaim for Spider-Man ... Also. IMDb lists Jill Hennessy as appearing in the film in the role of “BeautifulWoman.” ... .
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22 Feb 2024
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22 Feb 2024