Biography
Perhaps due in part to the nomadic nature of her childhood, Hennessy refused to limit her creative output, picking up parts in feature films like Ron Howard's ensemble drama "The Paper" (1994) and a supporting role in the indie biopic "I Shot Andy Warhol" (1995). After her departure from "Law & Order," she had more small turns on the big screen in projects such as the romantic-comedy "A Smile Like Yours" (1997), as well as the cliché-ridden …
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Career Milestones
| As a teenager, began performing with an improvisational comedy troupe in Canada | ||
| Became interested in a performing career at age 12 after parents' separation | ||
| Lived with father and siblings in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Raised in Canada; family moved frequently because of father's work | ||
| Supported herself as a bartender, waitress and street performer | ||
1987 | Moved to Toronto at age 18 | |
1988 | Feature film debut in a bit part as half a pair of twin prostitutes in "Dead Ringers"; her sister played the other twin | |
1990 | At age 20, moved to NYC | |
1990 | Made Broadway debut as the musician's Puerto Rican wife in the musical "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" | |
1993 | First prominent feature film role, "Robocop 3" | |
1993 | Joined the cast of the acclaimed NBC police and courtroom drama "Law & Order" playing assistant district attorney Claire Kincaid | |
1996 | Announced she was leaving cast of "Law & Order" | |
1997 | Appeared as an architect who tries to seduce a construction worker in the comedy "A Smile Like Yours" | |
1997 | Co-starred with Keenen Ivory Wayans as an eyewitness to a political assassination in "Most Wanted" | |
1999 | Cast as the doctor who "cures" the title character's autism in "Molly" | |
1999 | Played the lesbian lover of an Indian woman who decides to serve as a surrogate mother in "Chutney Popcorn" | |
2000 | Returned to the legal world as the assistant to the chief prosecutor of Nazi war criminals in "Nuremberg" (TNT) | |
2000 | Wrote, co-directed (with Elizabeth Holder) and starred in the comedy "The Acting Class"; twin sister Jacqueline has featured role; former TV co-stars Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth and Benjamin Bratt co-star | |
2001 | Cast as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in "Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot" (NBC) | |
2001 | Returned to series TV as an unconventional medical examiner on NBC's "Crossing Jordan" | |
2002 | Landed featured role in the romantic comedy "The End of Love"; film featured at the Sundance Film Festival | |
2007 | Cast as Tim Allen's wife in the comedy adventure "Wild Hogs" | |
2008 | Co-starred with Rory Culkin and Alec Baldwin in the family comedy drama "Lymelife" | |
2011 | Acted alongside Ron Eldard and Bobby Cannavale in "Roadie" | |
Awards
1995 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in Law & Order |
1996 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in Law & Order |
1997 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in Law & Order |