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HOLLYWOOD COUPLE CALL IT QUITS
Hollywood couple Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek are calling it quits after more than 16 years of marriage.
Whitford's publicist, Melissa Kates, has confirmed the The West Wing actor and Malcolm in the Middle actress are divorcing.
Whitfield, 49, played is best known for playing Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in the Josiah Bartlet administration on The West Wing, while 53-year-old Kaczmarek played Malcolm's hard-nosed mother Lois on Malcolm in the Middle.
The couple filed divorce papers in Los Angeles on Friday.
"He hopes the media will respect their wish for privacy as they focus on their children," Kates said.
The couple were married in August 1992 and have three children, Frances Genevieve, 12, George Edward, nine, and six-year-old Mary Louisa.
Kaczmarek currently stars as a judge on the TV series Raising the Bar.
Whitford starred in a Broadway revival of " Boeing-Boeing last year.