Jillian Noel Hennessy

Jillian Noel Hennessy (19 November 1975) is a Canadian singer and actor. She is best known for her roles 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 on films such as RoboCop 3 (most wanted) and Crossing Jordan (which she also wrote and directed). Hennessy was born in Edmonton. John Hennessy, her father was a meat salesman as well as an executive in marketing and sales. His work required a lot of traveling, which meant many moves for the entire family. The mother of her child, Maxine, a secretary who left the family in 1982 leaving her daughter to be partially raised by her paternal grandmother Eleanor who lives in Kitchener, Ontario. John Paul Hennessy Jr. has a younger brother, as well as Jacqueline is a twin sister. Jacqueline works as a journalist and host on the Canadian television program. Hennessy is of Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her father's side, and mainly Ukrainian Roma, as well as Austrian as well as Austrian ancestry on her mother's side. After finishing her studies at Grand River Collegiate Institute (both located in Kitchener) She then went to Stanley Park Senior Public School. She also took part in the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister were first actors when they appeared as twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. Gillian Anderson, Gillian Anderson's sister, has stated that she was shortlisted in The X-Files for Dana Scully's part. Hennessy also played the part of Dr. Marie Lazarus on RoboCop 3. In 1993 Dick Wolf signed Hennessy to the role of Claire Kincaid assistant district attorney in the show Law & Order. The show ran for three seasons. The show ended in 1996.