Jennifer Hennessy

Who is Jennifer Hennessy?

Jennifer Hennessy is a British actress best known for playing Mrs Brazendale in the BBC TV series Lilies.

She 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 in "Gridlock", an episode of Doctor Who, playing a vet in the BBC3 comedy "Pulling" 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 the UK Singles Chart in 1980 with the song "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma".

She describes herself as loyal, sociable, caring, volatile and organised.

Jennifer made a cameo appearance in ITV's Scott and Bailey Series 1 episode 2 as Mrs Farrall, her son committed murder and she went to prison for "assisting an offender".