 Click to View Photos of Thomas Selleck | Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer who has starred in a number of television series and films.
His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum PI. Since 2010, Selleck has co-starred as New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the series Blue Bloods, and the show has been renewed for its eleventh season in 2020–2021. Beginning in 2005, he has portrayed troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B Parker novels.
In films, Selleck has played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby and its sequel. He has also appeared in more than 50 other film and television roles since Magnum, P.I., including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He appeared in recurring television roles as Monica Geller's love interest Dr. Richard Burke on Friends, as Lance White, the likeable and naive partner on The Rockford Files, and as casino owner A.J. Cooper on Las Vegas. He also had a lead role in the television western movie The Sacketts, based on two of Louis L'Amour's books.
Selleck is a California Army National Guard veteran, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association , an endorser in advertisements for National Review magazine, and co-founder of the Character Counts! organization.
Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1945, to housewife Martha Selleck and Robert Dean Selleck , who was an executive and real estate investor.
Selleck's family moved to Sherman Oaks, California, during his childhood. He has an older brother Robert , a sister Martha , and a younger brother Daniel .
His father was of primarily English ancestry but had distant German ancestry as well, while his mother was of English descent. Through an entirely paternal line, Selleck is a direct descendant of English colonist David Selleck who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset, England, in 1633. Through this line, Selleck is the 11th generation of his family born in North America.Full name: Thomas Selleck Born: January 29, 1945Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA |
