Tom Selleck’s Beautiful Daughter Hannah Chose A Career Path Different From Her Father’s

Jun 25, 2022 by apost team

Tom Selleck has been a beloved face in Hollywood for decades. Others go into related industries such as management or production. With his breakout role being that of a private investigator, it's no surprise that Selleck has had continued success in such roles. He currently plays New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in the series “Blue Bloods,” which is now in its twelfth season. Aside from acting, Selleck is a California Army National Guard veteran and co-founder of the Character Counts organization. Selleck even appeared in Pepsi-Cola commercials before becoming a successful actor in television series and movies. 

In the mid-90s, Selleck was on the hit show "Friends" as Monica's older boyfriend. Although he only appeared in a few episodes throughout the show, his role won him an Emmy nomination in 2000 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.

In terms of his personal life, Selleck has been married twice. His first wife was model Jacqueline Ray, and their relationship lasted slightly less than a decade, despite them having a son together named Kevin. In 1987 — just five years after his split with Ray — Selleck married Jillie Joan Mack, and in 1988 they had their only daughter, Hannah Selleck. Many children of Hollywood celebrities follow in their parents' footsteps and become professional actors. Occasionally, a celebrity's child, such as Hannah Selleck, chooses an entirely unrelated career. Instead of acting, Hannah has chosen a much different life path.

Read on to find out more about Selleck's daughter Hannah Selleck and what she has decided to do for a living instead of following in her father's footsteps in the acting world of Hollywood.

Tom Selleck was born on Jan. 29, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, to his parents, Martha and Robert Dean Selleck. Selleck was raised as a middle child with one older brother and two younger siblings. Just three years after Selleck was born, his family decided to move to Sherman Oaks, California, where Selleck would group up and eventually go to high school. 

After graduating from Grant High School in 1962, Selleck lived from home to save money as he attended Los Angeles Valley College. With a basketball scholarship, Selleck transferred to the University of Southern California and played for the USC Trojans men's basketball team. 

Selleck was attending the university to receive a degree in business administration, but when a drama coach suggested he try acting, he dropped out his senior year and studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under stage director Milton Katselas. Before he dropped out, Selleck got his very first acting role on “The Dating Game” in 1965, and he even appeared in commercial advertisements for companies such as Pepsi-Cola and Right Guard deodorant in 1971. 

Selleck continued with small roles in lesser-known movies and advertisements as he became the face for Salem cigarettes and Revlon's Chaz cologne. The new actor struggled as an unknown face in Hollywood as he found work in multiple TV stories before he got his big break and became the mustachioed hunk in Hollywood that everyone's come to love nowadays. He's gone on to become a regular face in series with decade-long success, as well as films. 

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When people think of Selleck, an image of his defining mustache would most likely come to mind. It even has its own Facebook page. The page currently has over 36,000 followers and is listed as a “Public Figure.” The page updates regularly and uses pictures of Selleck and his mustache fitting to the post's topic. All of the page’s display pictures so far have been of Selleck’s mustache with the rest of his face or body cropped out. 

Selleck has reached his 70's, but he's still a great actor. He is best known for his role in the 1987 comedy 'Three Men and a Baby,' which was the highest-grossing film of that year. After a string of commercial work and small TV roles, he got his big break as a private investigator 'Thomas Magnum' in the television series 'Magnum, P.I.,' and worked on the show from 1980 to 1988.

On Aug. 7, 1987, Selleck married his current wife, British actress Jillie Joan Mack, in a low-key ceremony at Lake Tahoe. This is Selleck's second marriage, as he had been married to model Jacquelyn Ray from 1970 to 1982. Selleck’s first child, Kevin Selleck, is the biological son of Jacqueline Ray, who Selleck adopted after they got married. The actor remained in Kevin’s life following the divorce and even dabbled in a little bit of acting (he had appeared in one episode of Magnum, P.I.) before giving more attention to his music career. He was a former drummer in a rock band called Tonic.

With Selleck having been married twice, he had a thing or two to say about marriage. “It’s important to nurture your marriage,” he said, according to PEOPLE magazine in 2012. “I think wanting time away from work has been good for that.” 

Hannah Margaret Selleck is the daughter and only child of Selleck and Jillie Joan Mack. She is a professional horseback rider who also owns and operates a horse farm — a far cry from her parents' former Hollywood life.

If there were a recipe for making a movie star, it would resemble Hannah. Born to Hollywood parents, Hannah seemed to have the genes for a successful career. After all, good looks and even sharper minds run in her family.

Hannah was born on Dec. 16, 1988. Shortly after she was born, her famous parents relocated to a 65-acre ranch in California. It was essential to Selleck that his daughter grow up surrounded by nature. 

The actor told PEOPLE magazine in 2012 that his property has “a 1926 ranch house, a horse corral, and a 20-acre working avocado farm,” which he says is “hard to make a living, let alone a profit” from his crops.” Nevertheless, he counts the privacy and space that comes with the ranch to be “a real blessing.” Despite the abundance of avocados surrounding him, the actor says that guacamole makes him gag. “I don’t eat ’em,” he told PEOPLE magazine.

“Honestly, they make me gag. But it’s just as well. I’ll sell my portion.”

The ranch has been an ideal escape from Hollywood for Selleck. He had gone from working 90 hours a week to doing a movie every break to leaving it all behind to start a family with Mack. “I quit “Magnum (P.I.)” to have a family,” he said to PEOPLE in 2012. “It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.”

Little did Selleck nor Jillie Joan Mack know that their new address would pave the way for their daughter's exciting career. “We both thought it was the best environment for her to grow up,” Mack said.

In an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated in 2019, Hannah shared that at the tender age of 4, she had a significant defining moment: She rode her first horse. An old family photo posted to Instagram showed her hugging Taffy Apple, one of the first horses she ever owned.

As she grew up, her involvement with horses changed from a hobby to a passion. “I started at 4, and my parents just encouraged me to try all different things — dance, ice skating, soccer, lots of things that kids do,” Hannah told The Hollywood Reporter in October 2015. Around the time I was 12, I was getting more serious.” 

By the time she was 14 years old, she wholeheartedly pursued a career in horseback riding. “Then around the age of 14, I was very good at ballet and riding. At that point I had to choose if I wanted to excel at either one. My love was with the horses. That’s when I became very serious about it,” she added.

This passion continued throughout her college years. According to Showbiz CheatSheet, she attained a communications degree while studying at Loyola Marymount. She then spent six months interning at a Beverly Hills public relations firm. But her heart was with her horses and not with PR.

When she returned home after graduating at 23 years old, Hannah spent time with her parents and bonded over doing farm chores and binge-watching TV series like “Gossip Girl,” PEOPLE reported.

Hannah's horseback riding career took off when she was done with college. The equestrian continued training, entered horseback riding competitions, and founded a horse farm. She still owns and operates this business dedicated to her favorite animals. According to PEOPLE magazine, Tom and Mack say that living in the countryside influenced their daughter’s maturity.

Hannah said that riding is “always (her) priority.” After years of hard work, the 33-year-old has qualified for the Grand Prix level of competitive horse riding and a bunch of international medals, including finishing in the top fives at St. Moritz, Switzerland; Belgium; the Netherlands; and the Canadian Pacific Grand Prix at the 2015 Longines Masters of Los Angeles.

Equestrians get injured all the time, and Hannah is no exception to this. Thankfully, none of her injuries have been too serious. In June 2018, she underwent surgery and physiotherapy after her foot got stuck in the magnetic stirrup when the horse she was on refused to jump and turned quickly. As a result, she did not compete or train for seven months, as reported by Palm Beach Illustrated.

When she is not competing, she is training and tending to her farm, where she oversees staff who help groom and exercise her horses. “For me, it’s always work,” she told Palm Beach Illustrated. “It’s not like idle trail riding. We’re always working for a goal, and we prepare for weeks for that one to two minutes in the arena. I’m always thinking about what we need to do to improve.”

Hannah's career must be quite exciting for her and her Hollywood parents. While she is also considering pursuing an MBA, Hannah knows her true love will always be with her horses.

“I want to keep going on the journey and see where it takes me,” Hannah said. But whatever that future brings, she added, “horses will always be part of my life.”

According to previous Instagram posts, the equestrian is currently dating American polo player and model Nic Roldan, 39. The two seem compatible because of the similarities in their lifestyles and passions.

For starters, they are both December babies. And like his girlfriend, Roldan started riding horses at a very young age. According to an interview with VUE in 2018, he moved to a polo farm in Wellington, Florida, with his family as a toddler and started riding horses with his father at three years old. By age 5, he had begun training in polo and was the youngest player in history to win the US Polo Open title at just 15 years old.

Besides having careers that revolve around horses, the two truly love the animals. In just a few years, Roldan had helped raise over a million dollars for Brooke USA, a non-profit organization whose mission is to significantly improve the welfare of horses, donkeys, and mules all around the world.

For Hannah, the connection she has had with the horses since she was young drew her to become an equestrian in the first place.

“I loved being around the animals, and as a kid, taking care of different ponies and hanging out at the barn all day,” she said. “The whole riding culture. You’re spending so much time one on one caring for the horses, so I fell in love with that. As I progressed in the sport, I fell in love with the competition itself.”

What do you think of Hannah Selleck's decision to go her own way? Perhaps you've chosen a completely different path than your parents or other family members. Take a few moments to let us know your thoughts, and then be sure to pass this on to any friends and family, or Tom Selleck fans you know!