Jill Hennessy remembers the time she became trapped in a coffin on the set of Crossing Jordan like it was yesterday. During the first season of NBC's crime drama — six years ago — the actress, 38, was filming a graveyard scene when she accidentally became boxed in. ''A stuntman hadn't been told I was in the coffin, and he kicked the lid shut and it latched,'' recalls the claustrophobic TV vet (Law & Order), who can also be seen hamming it up in the hit film Wild Hogs. ''Nobody could find me for a few minutes, but a few minutes in a locked coffin — I thought I was going to have a heart attack!'' With Hennessy nowhere to be found, the crew ''opened the lid to do another shot, and they found me inside! It was one of the worst experiences of my life!''


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