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Jennifer Hennessy (born Jennifer Hayes in 1970) is an English
actress
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. She has made numerous television appearances, including as Mrs. Brazendale in the
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Hennessy trained for three years at the
Central School of Speech and Drama
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906, as The Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students. It became a ...
, graduating in 1992. She has since appeared in a number of theatrical roles, as well as on
television
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, including the character of Jude in ''
The Office
''The Office'' is a mockumentary sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, first made in the United Kingdom, then Germany, and subsequently the United States. It has since been remade in ten other countries.
The original series o ...
''; Julie, the man-hating shop-assistant, in the "Fockin Mokky Bokka" episode of ''
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
''Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps'' is a British sitcom that ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011. First broadcast on BBC Two, it starred Sheridan Smith, Will Mellor, Natalie Casey, Ralf Little, Kathryn Drysdale and Luke Gell. ...
''; and, in 2007, as Valerie Brannigan (the wife of
Ardal O'Hanlon
Ardal O'Hanlon (; born 8 October 1965) is an Irish comedian, actor, and author. He played Father Dougal McGuire in ''Father Ted'' (1995–1998), George Sunday/Thermoman in '' My Hero'' (2000–2005), and DI Jack Mooney in '' Death in Paradise'' ...
's character, Thomas Kincade Brannigan) in "
Gridlock
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", 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
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in 1980 with the song "
There's No-one Quite Like Grandma".
She also starred in
BBC One
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drama ''
Dickensian
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...
'', a series based on
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
' 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
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
1970 births
Actors from Stockport
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