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








