Jennifer Hennessy
Born: 1970-01-01 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- Sherwood as Chief Constable
2020
- Roadkill as Bryony Beckett
2016
- Lambing Season as Evelyn
- The Violators as Helen
2014
- The Passing Bells as Susan
2013
- Father Brown as Sally Clegg
- The Village as Charity Winkworth
- Death Comes to Pemberley as Mrs. Bidwell
2012
- Call the Midwife as Ada Challis
2011
- South Riding as Mrs Holly
2009
- Moving On as Sue
- Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 as Mrs Kemplay
- Red Riding as Mrs Kemplay
- Is Anybody There? as School Mother
2007
- Lilies as Madelaine Brazendale
- Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley as Gaynor
2006
- Pulling as Vet
2005
- Doctor Who as Valerie
2004
- Shameless as Louise
- Green Wing as Suzie
- In Denial of Murder as Jackie Dunn
2003
- Blue Murder as Mary Hunt
- Loving You as Mrs. Smithson
- Danielle Cable: Eyewitness as DS Libby Marks
2002
- Foyle's War as Ruth Shaw
- Flesh and Blood as Vicky
2001
- The Office as Jude
- Buried Treasure as Jill Hellings
1999
- The Tichborne Claimant as Cousin Alicia
1996
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Cheryl Wright
1994
- Pauline Calf's Wedding Video as Other Pauline
1986
- Casualty as Gemma Fisher