Tom Selleck’s famous first wife who was his co-star during their divorce

The Blue Bloods alum is now married to actress Jillie Mack

Tom Selleck forms one half of one of Hollywood’s most enduring unions, having been with his wife Jillie Mack for nearly four decades.

The Blue Bloods actor, 80, and the English former dancer, 67, first met in the United Kingdom when he caught a production of Cats and was enamored with Jillie, who played Rumpleteazer in the popular West End show.

Love soon blossomed between the pair, and they tied the knot in 1987, welcoming a daughter named Hannah. However, the time between when their love story began and Tom’s previous relationship ended wasn’t as long as you’d think.

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Who was Tom Selleck’s first wife?

Before meeting Jillie, a young Tom tied the knot with actress and model Jacqueline Ray. It has been reported she was married once before to a man named Tom Shepard.

Jacqueline, now 72, also went by the name “Jacki Ray” during the height of her career, mainly earning attention for starring in a few movies and TV shows from the 1960s’ up until the 2000s.

American actor Tom Selleck and his wife, Jacquelyn Ray, hugging at actor Robert Colbert's birthday party, at Colbert's home in Malibu, California. Selleck and Colbert were co-stars on the television soap opera, 'The Young and the Restless.'© Getty Images

Her debut came in the 1967 film In Like Flint and she followed that up with film appearances in The Gnome-Mobile the same year and Frasier the Sensuous Lion in 1973. Her TV appearances include an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. and Dallas, with her final screen appearance being the teen sitcom Unfabulous in 2007.

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What do we know of Tom and Jacqueline’s marriage?

Tom and Jacqueline tied the knot in May 1971, when the former was 26 and the latter was only 18, having made her film debut just a few years prior. Tom had just made his own film debut in 1970, with a small cameo in Myra Breckenridge.

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