American actor Thomas William Selleck. His most famous role was the private detective Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988), for which he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead actor in a Drama Series which he won in 1985. In the series Blue Bloods, Selleck has appeared as Frank Reagan, New York City Police Commissioner. Since 2005 the actor played troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine television films that were based on the Robert B. Parker novels.In films, Selleck has played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). From the time of Magnum, P.I., the actor has been featured in over 50 television roles and in film, including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Lassiter and baseball. He was a frequent television actor, playing Monica Geller's lover Dr. Richard Burke, on Friends; Lance White, the likeable, naive partner, in The Rockford Files; and as A.J., the casino owner. Cooper in Las Vegas. Cooper also played the leading role in the TV western The Sacketts, based on two of Louis L'Amour's books.Selleck is a California Army National Guard veteran and is a spokesperson for National Rifle Association (NRA) as well as an endorser on advertisements for National Review magazine, and co-founder of the Character Counts! organization.
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