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.
2022
as Chief Constable
2020
as Bryony Beckett
2016
as Evelyn
2016
as Helen
2014
as Susan
2013
as Mrs. Bidwell
2013
as Sally Clegg
2012
as Ada Challis
2011
as Mrs Holly
2009
as Sue
2009
as School Mother
2009
as Mrs Kemplay
2009
as Mrs Kemplay
2007
as Madelaine Brazendale
2007
as Gaynor
2006
as Vet
2005
as Valerie
2005
as Moira
2004
as Suzie
2004
as Jackie Dunn
2003
as Mary Hunt
2003
as DS Libby Marks
2002
as Vicky
2001
as Jude
2001
as Jill Hellings
1998
as Cousin Alicia
1996
as Cheryl Wright
1994
as Other Pauline
1986
as Gemma Fisher