Frances Tomelty

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Known For

Acting

Born

1948-10-06

Place of Birth

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Frances Tomelty

Biography

Frances Tomelty (born 6 Oct 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish actress and the first wife of Sting. She is the daughter of Belfast actor Joseph Tomelty (5 March 1911 – 7 June 1995). She has featured in series including Bergerac, Inspector Morse, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Strangers, Midsomer Murders and Coronation Street, Cracker, as well as films like Bellman and True, Monk Dawson, Bullshot and The Field. She was Lady Macbeth in the Old Vic's disastrous 1980 production of Macbeth, with Peter O'Toole in the title role. In 1976 she married Sting after knowing him for two years. They met on the set of a rock-musical called Rock Nativity. She was the Virgin Mary, he played in the band. They have two children, Joseph (born 23 November 1976) and Fuchsia Katherine (born 17 April 1982). The couple divorced in 1984. Tomelty's later work includes roles in the series Spooks, Casualty and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frances Tomelty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

2025
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead as Leader of the Guild
2023
Accused as Mrs. Daly
2023
The Woman in the Wall as Sister Eileen
2022
Karen Pirie as Mary Grant Snr
2020
Warrior Nun as Sister Frances
2020
Gangs of London as Niamh
2018
Black Earth Rising as Sorcha Beattie
2015
Charlie as Sarah Haughey
2013
Atlantis as Anysia
2013
Peaky Blinders as Bethany Boswell
2013
The White Queen as Margaret Beauchamp
2012
Call the Midwife as Dulcie Greenhalgh
2011
Death in Paradise as Olivia Reeves
2009
Chéri as Rose
2008
Merlin as Niede
2008
Bonekickers as Karen Magwilde
2006
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Kitty Porter
2004
New Tricks
2003
The Royal as Rosemary Briggs
2002
Spooks as Carmen Joyce
2001
Waking the Dead as Jane Hussey
1998
Vanity Fair as Mrs. O'Dowd
1998
Monk Dawson as Mrs. Carter
1997
The Boxer as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
1997
Trial & Retribution
1997
Midsomer Murders as Audrey Monday
1996
Silent Witness
1994
Julius Caesar as Calphunia
1994
Nobody's Children as Mme. Beziel
1993
Cracker as Mrs. Lang
1993
High Boot Benny as Matron
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Calphurnia (voice)
1992
Carlo Levi Stopped Here as Self - Commentary
1991
Spender as Lorraine Hope
1990
The Field as Widow
1990
Perfect Scoundrels as Patricia
1988
Burning Beds
1988
Star Trap as Hermione Bradstreet
1987
Bellman and True as Anna
1987
Inspector Morse as Grace Craven
1986
A State of Emergency as Jackie Hampton
1986
Lamb as Mrs. Kane
1986
Casualty as Annie McGann
1986
Casualty as Morven Tasker
1985
Radio Pictures as Susanna Prine
1985
Blue Money as Fidelma
1984
Oxbridge Blues as Angela Lane
1983
Bullshot as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
1982
Under the Skin as Polly
1981
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain as Ruby
1981
Bergerac as Bonnie Hawkesworth
1980
The Enigma Files as Josepha
1980
Juno and the Paycock as Juno Boyle
1979
Testament of Youth
1979
Tales of the Unexpected as Norma
1978
Strangers
1978
The Medusa Touch as Nanny
1977
Catchpenny Twist as Monagh
1976
Life and Death of Penelope
1975
The Romantic Englishwoman as Airport Shop Assistant
1975
Survivors as Mary Jean Mead
1974
The Changeling as Diaphanta
1972
The Bouncing Boy as Women at Hospital
1972
Pebble Mill at One
1972
A Touch of the Victorians as Caroline Young
1971
Girl on the M1 as Student
1970
Play for Today
1970
Play for Today as Polly
1967
Callan
1967
The World of Wodehouse as Angela
1965
BBC Play of the Month as Diaphanta