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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1970
Place of Birth
Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Jennifer Hennessy
0.4 Popularity
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
7.0
Chief Constable
Sherwood
2022
6.4
Bryony Beckett
Roadkill
2020
6.5
Evelyn
Lambing Season
2016
5.7
Helen
The Violators
2016
7.6
Susan
The Passing Bells
2014
6.9
Mrs. Bidwell
Death Comes to Pemberley
2013
7.2
Charity Winkworth
The Village
2013
7.6
Sally Clegg
Father Brown
2013
7.5
Ada Challis
Call the Midwife
2012
6.9
Mrs Holly
South Riding
2011
Credits
Sherwood
as Chief Constable
2022
7.0
Roadkill
as Bryony Beckett
2020
6.4
Lambing Season
as Evelyn
2016
6.5
The Violators
as Helen
2016
5.7
The Passing Bells
as Susan
2014
7.6
Death Comes to Pemberley
as Mrs. Bidwell
2013
6.9
The Village
as Charity Winkworth
2013
7.2
Father Brown
as Sally Clegg
2013
7.6
Call the Midwife
as Ada Challis
2012
7.5
South Riding
as Mrs Holly
2011
6.9
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
as Mrs Kemplay
2009
6.7
Moving On
as Sue
2009
7.1
Is Anybody There?
as School Mother
2009
6.3
Red Riding
as Mrs Kemplay
2009
6.7
Lilies
as Madelaine Brazendale
2007
7.4
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
as Gaynor
2007
5.4
Pulling
as Vet
2006
7.6
Doctor Who
as Valerie
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
as Moira
2005
7.6
Green Wing
as Suzie
2004
7.9
🎬
In Denial of Murder
as Jackie Dunn
2004
6.0
Shameless
as Louise
2004
7.6
Blue Murder
as Mary Hunt
2003
6.7
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
as DS Libby Marks
2003
0.0
🎬
Loving You
as Mrs. Smithson
2003
0.0
Foyle's War
as Ruth Shaw
2002
7.9
Flesh and Blood
as Vicky
2002
5.0
The Office
as Jude
2001
7.8
Buried Treasure
as Jill Hellings
2001
6.0
The Tichborne Claimant
as Cousin Alicia
1999
8.0
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Cheryl Wright
1996
7.3
🎬
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video
as Other Pauline
1994
0.0
Casualty
as Gemma Fisher
1986
6.1