Fun Fact: Jill Hennessy speaks 4 other languages other than English: Italian, French, Spanish and German.
Jill Hennessy was born on November 25, 1968, 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 Hennessy Jr.( also known as J.P.), 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, as well as Austrian, ancestry on her mother's.[3] She graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and used to bask in the Toronto Subway.
Hennessy began her acting career in Toronto appearing in the feature film Dead Ringers. She studied improvisational comedy with the famed Second City and also worked with a Toronto-based improv comedy troupe before landing a role in the Broadway-bound production of The Buddy Holly Story. Once in New York, Hennessy starred in Ron Howard's feature film The Paper, and her additional film credits include I Shot Andy Warhol, Chutney Popcorn, Most Wanted, A Smile Like Yours, Dead Broke, Row Your Boat, The Florentine, Two Ninas, Komodo, Autumn in New York and the box-office hit Exit Wounds. She also wrote, directed, produced and performed in her own movie, The Acting Class. Hennessy was last seen on the big screen in the Robert Redford/Sundance Lab project, Love in the Time of Money.
Jill Hennessy turns 41 today.
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