Biography
Jill Hennessy's confidence and maturity propelled her to early success in the long-running crime drama series "Law & Order." She portrayed Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid for three seasons. Despite her nomadic childhood, Hennessy refused to limit her creative endeavours. She took on roles in films like "The Paper" and "I Shot Andy Warhol." After leaving "Law & Order," she appeared in smaller roles in movies such as "A Smile Like Yours" and "Most Wanted." Hennessy returned to televisio...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Madame Web
2024
as Beautiful Woman
Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...i...
The Road to Galena
2022
as Teresa Baird
Cole Baird has everything—a beautiful wife, successful career, large home, country club membership and expensive toys. Behind the facade, however, is ...
Standing Up, Falling Down
2020
as Vanessa
An unlikely friendship kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A. — forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail betwee...
Crypto
2019
as Robin
A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.
Don't Sleep
2017
as Cindy Bradford
After moving into a cottage together, two young lovers confront horrors of a forgotten childhood.
Lost in Time
2017
as Dr. Katherine James
In 2004, Evan White was traveling in southern Thailand when a tsunami washed out the island of Ko Phi Phi. Now she is caught in a world between life a...
If I Had Wings
2013
as Sandy Taylor
Alex, blind since the age of two, dreams of running for his school's cross-country team. His father, a probation officer, finds a running partner who ...
Dawn Rider
2012
as Alice
A gripping story of vengeance and passion set in the American West. When the father of gunslinger John Mason is shot to death by masked bandits, Mason...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
2012
as Agnes Leacock
Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously l...
Roadie
2012
as Nikki Stevens
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he ...
Small Town Murder Songs
2010
as Rita
A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local...
Lymelife
2008
as Brenda Bartlett
A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 1...
Game of Life
2007
as Brenda
In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five famili...
Wild Hogs
2007
as Kelly Madsen
Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue...
Abby Singer
2003
as Jill Hennessy (uncredited)
Chronicles the life of Curtis Clemins, who is torn between the love of his life and accomplishing his dream. When hitting rock bottom during the Sunda...
Love in the Time of Money
2002
as Ellen Walker
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovatin...
Pipe Dream
2002
as Marina Peck
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
The Making of Exit Wounds
2002
as Self
Behind the scenes of Andrzej Bartkowiak's 'Exit Wounds'
Exit Wounds
2001
as Annette Mulcahy
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds ...
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
2001
as Jackie Kennedy
They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image b...
Chutney Popcorn
2001
as Lisa
Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. ...
Two Ninas
2000
as Mike the Bartender
After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family bus...
Autumn in New York
2000
as Lynn
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together t...
The Acting Class
2000
as Amanda Smythe/Jill/Anonymous
A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college students, Liz and Jill set off to find the most influential a...
The Acting Class
2000
Director, Camera Operator, Screenplay
A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college students, Liz and Jill set off to find the most influential a...
Molly
1999
as Susan Brookes
Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car acc...
Komodo
1999
as Victoria the Shrink
During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have...
The Florentine
1999
as Brenda
A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of lif...
Row Your Boat
1999
as Patti
Jon Bon Jovi plays Jamey Meadows, a man newly released from prison who has found himself homeless on the crazy streets of New York City. Slowly, he mu...
Dead Broke
1998
as Kate
A detective investigates a murder that has taken place outside a debt collection agency in Brooklyn. A motley assortment of suspects includes the empl...
Kiss & Tell
1997
as Interrogator Angela Pierce
A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why.
Most Wanted
1997
as Dr. Victoria Constantini
A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and ...
A Smile Like Yours
1997
as Lindsay Hamilton
A comedy about a couple who cannot conceive a baby
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
as Laura
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f...
The Paper
1994
as Deanne White
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, p...
RoboCop 3
1993
as Dr. Marie Lazarus
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortuna...
Dead Ringers
1988
as Mimsy
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affa...