Jillie Mack

About

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.

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, for which she also attended drama school.
She began a career in musical theatre, appearing as Nancy in a 1978 touring production of Sandy Wilson’s musical The Boy Friend presented by the Marlowe Theatre Company. Critic Neville Miller, reviewing a performance at the Theatre Royal in Norwich, singled out a “superbly executed” tango performed by Mack and Michael Remick as a comedic highlight of the production. By 1980, at the age of 22, she had appeared in stage productions including a pantomime season at the Adeline Genée…