Acting credits
32
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Jennifer Hennessy
Acting
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Movies: 10Series: 22
TMDB ID: 118609
IMDb ID: nm0377244
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1970
Age: 56
Place of birth: Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1986 - 2022
Years active: 37
Average TMDB rating: 7.15
Wikidata: Q16239893
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jennifer Hennessy.
6.5
Lambing Season
as Evelyn
2016 Movie
5.7
The Violators
as Helen
2016 Movie
6.7
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
as Mrs Kemplay
2009 Movie
6.3
Is Anybody There?
as School Mother
2009 Movie
5.4
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
as Gaynor
2007 Movie
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
as DS Libby Marks
2003 Movie
5.0
Flesh and Blood
as Vicky
2002 Movie
6.0
Buried Treasure
as Jill Hellings
2001 Movie
8.0
The Tichborne Claimant
as Cousin Alicia
1999 Movie
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video
as Other Pauline
1994 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jennifer Hennessy.
6.2
Red Rose
as Andrea • 4 eps
2022 Series
7.0
Sherwood
as Chief Constable • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.4
Roadkill
as Bryony Beckett • 4 eps
2020 Series
7.5
No Offence
as Michelle Hislop • 1 eps
2015 Series
7.6
The Passing Bells
as Susan • 5 eps
2014 Series
6.9
Death Comes to Pemberley
as Mrs. Bidwell • 3 eps
2013 Series
7.2
The Village
as Charity Winkworth • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.6
Father Brown
as Sally Clegg • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.5
Call the Midwife
as Ada Challis • 1 eps
2012 Series
6.9
South Riding
as Mrs Holly • 3 eps
2011 Series
7.1
Moving On
as Sue • 1 eps
2009 Series
6.7
Red Riding
as Mrs Kemplay • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.4
Lilies
as Madelaine Brazendale • 8 eps
2007 Series
7.6
Pulling
as Vet • 1 eps
2006 Series
7.6
Doctor Who
as Valerie • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.9
Green Wing
as Suzie • 1 eps
2004 Series
7.6
Shameless
as Louise • 1 eps
2004 Series
6.7
Blue Murder
as Mary Hunt • 1 eps
2003 Series
7.9
Foyle's War
as Ruth Shaw • 1 eps
2002 Series
7.8
The Office
as Jude • 3 eps
2001 Series
7.3
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Cheryl Wright • 1 eps
1996 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Gemma Fisher • 1 eps
1986 Series