Jill Hennessy

Her heritage is mixed, including Irish italians, Swedish, Italians french, Ukrainians, and Italians. Jacqueline is her twin sister, and is an actor. When she was growing up, Jill became fluent in different languages such as Italian, French and Spanish. When she was 12, she began to become attracted to acting. She started her acting career in Toronto as part of David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers playing an escort along with his twin sister. Following her improv classes with Deb Kimmet, who was a student at Second City, she began her acting career in Toronto. Following her move in New York, Claire signed a contract for two years with Law & Order to be the Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid. In the time she lived in New York working on the feature film industry, which included RoboCop 3 (1993), Ron Howard's The Paper (1996) and I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). She was a part of a handful of uninteresting films in the next several years before securing as the lead in the miniseries uremberg which was co-produced by Alec Baldwin. Autumn in New York, Exit Wounds and other major projects were scheduled to come. In 2001, she got the role of the main character in the crime drama on NBC Crossing Jordan and in 2007 she received a Gracie Allen award as "Outstanding Female Actress in the drama Series" due to her role in the series. The actress got married to another actor Paolo Mastropietro in 2000. The couple has two children. In 2007, she received an honorary place in Canada's Walk of Fame.