Thomas William Selleck is an American actor from the United States. His most memorable role was as the private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. He was nominated for five Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (1980-1988) and was awarded the Emmy Award in 1985. Since 2010 Selleck has co-starred in the role of New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the series Blue Bloods. Since 2005 the actor has played troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine television films that are 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). Since Magnum, P.I., the actor has appeared in more than fifty roles on television and film, including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He played the recurring television part of Monica Geller's love interest Dr. Richard Burke in Friends, as Lance White (the likeable but unassuming character) on The Rockford Files and as A.J. Cooper in Las Vegas. He also played the lead role in the western television film The Sacketts, based on two of Louis L'Amour's books.Selleck is a California Army National Guard veteran and a spokesperson 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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