Jillie Mack

Jillian Joan "Jillie" Mack (born 25 December 1957) is an English-born former stage actress, who appeared in numerous stage productions in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Since 1987 she has been the wife of actor Tom Selleck.

Early life and stage career Born and raised in Devizes in Wiltshire, England, the daughter of engineer Peter Mack and his wife Betty, Mack was educated at St Joseph's School in Devizes and later at St Augustine's Catholic School in Trowbridge. She received dance instruction through weekly classes at the Scouts' Hall on Southbroom Road in Devizes. At the age of 16, she moved to East Grinstead to attend ballet school and pursue a stage career, By 1980, at the age of 22, she had appeared in stage productions including a pantomime season at the Adeline Genée Theatre in East Grinstead and Miss Pepper in The Gingerbread Man, later returning to The Boy Friend in a touring production starring Richard Murdoch. She also appeared in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The following year, Mack replaced Bonnie Langford in the role of Rumpleteazer in the West End production of the musical, Cats. On August 7, 1987, Mack married Selleck, with whom she had one daughter, Hannah, who was born 16 December 1988.

After leaving the stage, Mack had about a dozen television appearances, mostly in small roles, including three appearances on Selleck's show, Magnum, P.I., in 1984 and 1985. Mack was a featured performer in the Royal Variety Performance held for Queen Elizabeth II on 20 November 1991, at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, under the direction of David Frost. She performed “Take that look off your face” from Song & Dance, and the event was broadcast 30 November 1991 on ITV. She costarred with James Coburn in an unsold 1991 TV pilot for show called Silverfox, which aired in July of that year, and was in episodes of Encyclopedia Brown in 1990, Frasier in 1996, with a last television appearance on ER in 2002.