Thomas William Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is an American actor, film producer, and volleyball player 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, P.I. (1980–1988). He has co-starred as New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the series Blue Bloods since 2010, 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, he has played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel. Selleck 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 (NRA), an endorser in advertisements for National Review magazine, and co-founder of the Character Counts! organization.
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