Jill Hennessy Luck

Jill Hennessy: One Slash We Don’t Mind

Fun fact about Jill Hennessy: Before she landed leading roles on shows like Law & Order and Crossing Jordan, she busked on the streets of Toronto, playing radio hits on her guitar for spare change. Though she’s gone on to bigger and better things, Hennessy never actually gave up her guitar.


The two sides of the Canadian entertainer come together in indie flick Roadie, where she plays a Queens singer-songwriter who has had to make do with taking the safe path in life. Not only do viewers get to see Hennessy performing (yes, that’s her real voice), but they get to hear one of her original songs, off of her debut album Ghost in My Head. We spoke with her about living out her own rock’n’roll fantasies (she performed at Lilith Fair last year) and learning life lessons from Dustin Hoffman.

ELLE: Any exciting projects for 2012?
JH: I’ve been working on an HBO series Michael Mann is producing called Luck. That’s just a dream cast, dream job—I play a veterinarian for Dustin Hoffman’s race horse. [He’s] one of the nicest guys, because he really is a mensch in the true sense of the word; he has a true talent for making people feel better about themselves whenever they’re with him. I’ll do these scenes with him and he’s so brilliant and he’s tackling some very difficult dialogue and I’ll see him be like, “Oh no, let me do it again.” Dustin Hoffman is beating himself up over what looked like genius….Can I use this as a lesson for myself? It’s incredible to work with actors I’ve admired anyway from afar. I have fun hanging out at craft service just to talk to people.

Source:http://fashion.elle.com/culture/2012/01/04/jill-hennessy-one-slash-we-dont-mind/