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Jennifer Hennessy
Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
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. Henn…
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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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2022
Red Rose
TV show Andrea
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2022
Sherwood
TV show Chief Constable
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2020
Roadkill
TV show Bryony Beckett
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2016
Lambing Season
Movie Evelyn
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2016
The Violators
Movie Helen
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2015
No Offence
TV show Michelle Hislop
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2014
The Passing Bells
TV show Susan
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2013
Death Comes to Pemberley
TV show Mrs. Bidwell
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2013
The Village
TV show Charity Winkworth
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2013
Father Brown
TV show Sally Clegg
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2012
Call the Midwife
TV show Ada Challis
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2011
The Body Farm
TV show Eleanor Garrick
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2011
South Riding
TV show Mrs Holly
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2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Movie Mrs Kemplay
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2009
Moving On
TV show Sue
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2009
Is Anybody There?
Movie School Mother
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2009
Red Riding
TV show Mrs Kemplay
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2007
Lilies
TV show Madelaine Brazendale
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2007
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Movie Gaynor
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2006
Pulling
TV show Vet
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2006
Waterloo Road
TV show Claire Evans
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2005
Doctor Who
TV show Valerie
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2004
Green Wing
TV show Suzie
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2004
In Denial of Murder
Movie Jackie Dunn
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2004
Shameless
TV show Louise
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2003
Blue Murder
TV show Mary Hunt
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2003
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Movie DS Libby Marks
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2003
Loving You
Movie Mrs. Smithson
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2002
Foyle's War
TV show Ruth Shaw
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2002
Flesh and Blood
Movie Vicky
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2001
The Office
TV show Jude
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2001
Buried Treasure
Movie Jill Hellings
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1999
The Tichborne Claimant
Movie Cousin Alicia
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1998
Undercover Heart
TV show Saffron
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1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV show Cheryl Wright
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1994
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video
Movie Other Pauline
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1992
A Touch of Frost
TV show Elizabeth Drew
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1986
Casualty
TV show Gemma Fisher
