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Jill Hennessy

  • Birthplace: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Birthday: November 25, 1968

A slender, dark-haired beauty with an intelligent demeanor and an attractive alto voice, Jill Hennessy made her Broadway debut as the Puerto Rican wife of the singer in "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" in 1990 and, after a handful of TV appearances, got her break in 1993 when she was cast as assistant district attorney Claire Kincaid on the engrossing NBC police and courtroom drama series "Law & Order.” The show had been running for several seasons, but personnel changes had already occurred, and Hennessy's coolly confident m…more

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Career Milestones

  • 2007

    Cast as Tim Allen s wife in the comedy adventure, Wild Hogs

  • 2002

    Had featured role in the romantic comedy The End of Love ; screened at the Sundance Film Festival

  • 2001

    Cast as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (NBC)

  • 2001 to 0000

    Returned to series TV as an unconventional medical examiner in the NBC series Crossing Jordan

  • 2000

    Returned to the legal world as the assistant to the chief prosecutor of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg (TNT)

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Awards

  • 2000

    Golden Satellite: Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

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In Crossing Jordan

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