Who Is Tom Selleck? Is She Dead Or Alive? Incident Explained

Who Is Tom Selleck? Is She Dead Or Alive? Incident Explained: Thomas William Selleck (/ˈsɛlɪk/; born 29 January 1945) is an American actor. His breakthrough role was as private investigator Thomas Magnum on the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988), for which he received five Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 1985. Since 2010, Selleck has played New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the Blue Bloods series. Since 2005, he has played troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine TV movies based on Robert B. Parker’s novels.

In the film, Selleck played single architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). Since Magnum, P.I., he has appeared in more than 50 other film and television roles, including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He appears frequently in TV roles, playing Monica Geller’s Doctor Love. Richard Burke plays Lance White in Friends, the lovable and naive partner in the Rockford Files, and casino owner A.J. Cooper in Las Vegas. He also starred in the Western TV movie The Sacketts, based on two books by Louis L’Amour.

Selleck is a California Army National Guard veteran, spokesperson for the National Rifle Association (NRA), spokesperson for National Review magazine ads, and co-founder of Character Counts! organize.

Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1945 to housewife Martha Selleck (née Jagger) and executive and real estate investor Robert Dean Selleck. He has an older brother Robert (born 1944), a younger sister Martha (born 1954) and a younger brother Daniel (born 1950).

His father is mainly of English but also of distant German ancestry, while his mother is of English ancestry. By full patrilineal blood, Selleck is a direct descendant of English colonist David Selleck, who moved from Somerset, England, to Massachusetts in 1633. Through this line, Selleck belongs to the 11th generation of his North American-born family.

The Selleck family moved to Sherman Oaks, California in 1948.