Jennifer Hennessy
English actress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jennifer Hennessy (born Jennifer Hayes in 1970[1]) is an English actress. She has made numerous television appearances, including as Mrs. Brazendale in the BBC TV series Lilies.
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Born | Jennifer Hayes 1970 (age 53ā54) Stockport, England |
Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
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".[2] 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.