# Jennifer Hennessy

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.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | The Tichborne Claimant | Cousin Alicia | |
| 1999 | Dead End | Dr. Browning's Nurse | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1994 | Pauline Calf's Wedding Video | Other Pauline | |
| 1996 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Cheryl Wright | Episode: "Poison Pen" |
| 1997–1999 | Coronation Street | D.C. Kay | 3 episodes |
| 1998 | The Broker's Man | WPC | Episode: "Swansong" |
| 1998 | Undercover Heart | Saffron | |
| 1998 | Casualty | Gemma Fisher | Episode: "One from the Heart" |
| 1998–2005 | The Bill | Julie Houghton Becky Foster Marion Clarke | 3 episodes |
| 1999 | People Like Us | | Episode: "The Solicitor" |
| 2000 | Clocking Off | Young Doctor | Episode: "The Leaches' Story" |
| 2001 | World of Pub | Various | 4 episodes |
| 2001 | Swallow | Jenny Lawler | |
| 2001 | Buried Treasure | Jill Hellings | TV-film |
| 2001 | Micawber | Rebecca Rideout | |
| 2002 | Barbara | Melanie | Episode: "Crime" |
| 2002 | Flesh and Blood | Vicky | |
| 2002 | The Office | Jude | 3 episodes |
| 2003 | The Second Coming | Female Reporter | |
| 2003 | Loving You | Mrs. Smithson | |
| 2003 | William and Mary | Sal Jordan | Episode: No. 1.1 |
| 2003 | Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Julie | Episode: "Fockin Mokky Bokka" |
| 2003 | Danielle Cable: Eyewitness | DS Libby Marks | |
| 2003 | Emmerdale | Juanita Taylor | 3 episodes |
| 2003 | A Touch of Frost | Elizabeth Drew | Episode: "Held in Trust" |
| 2004 | Fat Friends | Lorraine Frost | Episodes: "Food of Love" and "Eat Your Heart Out" |
| 2004 | In Denial of Murder | Jackie Dunn | |
| 2004 | The Lenny Henry Show | | Episode: No. 1.1 |
| 2004 | Blue Murder | Mary Hunt | Episode: Up in Smoke |
| 2004 | Conviction | Judy Fairley | 3 episodes |
| 2005 | Holby City | Moira Roberts | Episode: "No Pain No Gain" |
| 2006 | Green Wing | Suzie | Episode: No. 2.5 |
| 2006–2007 | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Kerry Willis | 9 episodes |
| 2007 | Dead Clever | Gaynor | |
| 2007 | Lilies | Mrs. Brazendale | 7 episodes |
| 2007 | Doctor Who | Valerie | Episode: "Gridlock" |
| 2008 | The Cup | Janice McConnell | 6 episodes |
| 2009 | Coronation Street | Bernie Sayers | Recurring role |
| 2010 | Marchlands | Liz Runcie | |
| 2010 | Waterloo Road | Claire Evans | Episode: No. 6.3 |
| 2011 | Hollyoaks | Registrar | |
| 2011 | South Riding | Mrs. Holly | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Psychoville | Rachel Groves | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | Scott & Bailey | Mrs Farell | Episode: No. 1.2 |
| 2011 | The Body Farm | Eleanor Garrick | Episode: No. 1.1 |
| 2012 | Holby City | Pam Barker | Episode: "Butterflies" |
| 2012 | Starlings | WPC | Episode: No. 1.5 |
| 2012 | Shameless | Louise | Episode: No. 10.5 |
| 2012 | Monroe | Sally Indale | Episode: No. 2.4 |
| 2012–2013 | Wizards vs Aliens | Helen Clarke | 4 episodes |
| 2013 | Death Comes to Pemberley | Mrs Bidwell | 3 episodes |
| 2013 | All at Sea | Cynthia Brice | Episode: "Biscuits" |
| 2014 | Utopia | Coach Station Mum | Episode: No. 2.6 |
| 2014 | The Village | Charity Winkworth | Episode: No. 2.6 |
| 2014 | The Passing Bells | Susan | 5 episodes |
| 2015 | 4 O'Clock Club | Mrs. Hazel | Episode: "Poem" |
| 2015 | Vera | Deirdre Reeves | Episode: "Muddy Waters" |
| 2015 | The Violators | Helen | TV-film |
| 2015 | Rough and Ready | Dr. Winter | TV-film |
| 2015–2016 | Dickensian | Emily Cratchit | 15 episodes |
| 2017 | Doctor Who | Moira | Episodes: "The Pilot" and "Extremis" |
| 2019 | Father Brown | Sally Clegg | Episode: "The Blood of the Anarchists" |
| 2020 | Doctors | Lou Staunton | Episode: "Too Proud" |
| 2020 | Roadkill | Bryony Beckett | 1 episode |
| 2024 | Sherwood | Chief Constable | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Doctors | Charlotte Heaversedge | 2 episodes |