Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1970
Place of Birth
Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Credits
38 titles
Jennifer Hennessy
Biography
Jennifer Hennessy (born Jennifer Hayes in 1970) is an English actress. She has made numerous television appearances, including as Mrs. Brazendale in the BBC TV series Lilies. Hennessy trained for three years at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1992. She has since appeared in a number of theatrical roles, as well as on television, including the character of Jude in The Office; Julie, the man-hating shop-assistant, in the "Fockin Mokky Bokka" episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps; and, in 2007, as Valerie Brannigan (the wife of Ardal O'Hanlon's character, Thomas Kincade Brannigan) in "Gridlock", an episode of Doctor Who, playing a vet in the BBC3 comedy "Pulling" (2008) and in the BBC mini-series South Riding in 2011. As a child, Hennessy was a member of the St Winifred's School Choir which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1980 with the song "There's No One Quite Like Grandma". She also starred in BBC One drama Dickensian, a series based on Charles Dickens' characters. She played the role of Emily Cratchit, a character in A Christmas Carol. She returned to Doctor Who in 2017, playing Moira, the foster mother of Bill Potts.
Known For
Filmography
Red Rose
Andrea
Sherwood
Chief Constable
Roadkill
Bryony Beckett
Lambing Season
Evelyn
The Violators
Helen
No Offence
Michelle Hislop
The Passing Bells
Susan
Death Comes to Pemberley
Mrs. Bidwell
The Village
Charity Winkworth
Father Brown
Sally Clegg
Call the Midwife
Ada Challis
The Body Farm
Eleanor Garrick
South Riding
Mrs Holly
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Mrs Kemplay
Moving On
Sue
Is Anybody There?
School Mother
Red Riding
Mrs Kemplay
Lilies
Madelaine Brazendale
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Gaynor
Pulling
Vet
Waterloo Road
Claire Evans
Doctor Who
Valerie
Green Wing
Suzie
In Denial of Murder
Jackie Dunn
Shameless
Louise
Blue Murder
Mary Hunt
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
DS Libby Marks
Loving You
Mrs. Smithson
Foyle's War
Ruth Shaw
Flesh and Blood
Vicky
The Office
Jude
Buried Treasure
Jill Hellings
The Tichborne Claimant
Cousin Alicia
Undercover Heart
Saffron
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Cheryl Wright
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video
Other Pauline
A Touch of Frost
Elizabeth Drew
Casualty
Gemma Fisher