Actors Harry Hamlin and Erik Estrada and actress-singer Nell Carter all filed for divorce from their spouses and each cited irreconcilable differences as the reasons for the dissolutions.

The three filed on Friday.Hamlin married Laurie Johnson in March 1985, and they separated last June or earlier, his Superior Court petition said. They have no children.

Hamlin, 37, a Pasadena native, has played attorney Michael Kuzak on the television series "L.A. Law" since 1986. In 1987, People magazine dubbed Hamlin the "sexiest man alive."

In his petition, Estrada said he will provide child and spousal support to his estranged wife, Peggy Lynn Rowe Estrada. They were married in August 1985 and separated last November.

Their children, Anthony Eric Estrada, 3, and Branden Michael-Paul Estrada, 22 months, live with their mother.

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Carter, 40, best known as boisterous housekeeper Nell Harper in the early 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break," married Georg Krynicki on May 14, 1982. In her petition she said their separation date is to be determined.

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