Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 06, 1948
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Credits
101 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Hairdresser Mysteries
Mrs Marigold
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
Leader of the Guild
The Death of Bunny Munro
Candice Birch
Accused
Mrs. Daly
The Woman in the Wall
Sister Eileen
Karen Pirie
Mary Grant Snr
The Nevers
Phoenicia Elizabeth Hague
All Creatures Great & Small
Mrs Donovan
Warrior Nun
Sister Frances
Gangs of London
Niamh
London Kills
Anne Garrick
Black Earth Rising
Sorcha Beattie
Apple Tree Yard
Price
Unforgotten
Maureen Sullivan
Catastrophe
Carol
Charlie
Sarah Haughey
Outlander
Elspeth Cunningham
Atlantis
Anysia
Peaky Blinders
Bethany Boswell
The White Queen
Margaret Beauchamp
Call the Midwife
Dulcie Greenhalgh
Death in Paradise
Olivia Reeves
Chéri
Rose
Law & Order: UK
Sister Logan
Merlin
Niede
Bonekickers
Karen Magwilde
Sold
Lady Ellesmere
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Kitty Porter
New Tricks
Jill Brewer
The Royal
Rosemary Briggs
Spooks
Carmen Joyce
Waking the Dead
Jane Hussey
Doctors
Susan Morrison
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Mrs. Sullivan
Holby City
Patty Turner
Vanity Fair
Mrs O'Dowd
Monk Dawson
Mrs. Carter
The Boxer
Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
Trial & Retribution
Norma O'Sullivan
Midsomer Murders
Audrey Monday
Silent Witness
Anne Cunningham
Kavanagh Q.C.
Gina Lomax
Julius Caesar
Calphunia
Nobody's Children
Mme. Beziel
99-1
Commander Stone
Cracker
Mrs. Lang
High Boot Benny
Matron
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Calphurnia (voice)
Carlo Levi Stopped Here
Self - Commentary
In Suspicious Circumstances
Maime