Frances Tomelty
Acting • Born 1948-10-06
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.
Filmography
71 credits
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
Movie • 2026
Leader of the Guild
The Field
Movie • 1990
Widow
Bullshot
Movie • 1983
Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
The Bouncing Boy
Movie • 1972
Women at Hospital
Bellman and True
Movie • 1987
Anna
Accused
Movie • 2023
Mrs. Daly
Carlo Levi Stopped Here
Movie • 1992
Self - Commentary
Monk Dawson
Movie • 1998
Mrs. Carter
Chéri
Movie • 2009
Rose
Lamb
Movie • 1986
Mrs. Kane
A State of Emergency
Movie • 1986
Jackie Hampton
Girl on the M1
Movie • 1971
Student
A Touch of the Victorians
Movie • 1972
Caroline Young
Burning Beds
Movie • 1988
The Changeling
Movie • 1974
Diaphanta
The Romantic Englishwoman
Movie • 1975
Airport Shop Assistant
High Boot Benny
Movie • 1993
Matron
Nobody's Children
Movie • 1994
Mme. Beziel
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
Movie • 1981
Ruby
The Boxer
Movie • 1997
Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
Blue Money
Movie • 1985
Fidelma
Star Trap
Movie • 1988
Hermione Bradstreet
The Medusa Touch
Movie • 1978
Nanny
Catchpenny Twist
Movie • 1977
Monagh
Under the Skin
Movie • 1982
Polly
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1994
Calphunia
Juno and the Paycock
Movie • 1980
Juno Boyle
Radio Pictures
Movie • 1985
Susanna Prine
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV • 2006
Kitty Porter
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Audrey Monday
Pebble Mill at One
TV • 1972
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Norma
The White Queen
TV • 2013
Margaret Beauchamp
Atlantis
TV • 2013
Anysia
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Grace Craven
Spooks
TV • 2002
Carmen Joyce
Survivors
TV • 1975
Mary Jean Mead
Callan
TV • 1967
The Enigma Files
TV • 1980
Josepha
Bonekickers
TV • 2008
Karen Magwilde
Spender
TV • 1991
Lorraine Hope
Trial & Retribution
TV • 1997
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Life and Death of Penelope
TV • 1976
Cracker
TV • 1993
Mrs. Lang
Perfect Scoundrels
TV • 1990
Patricia
Oxbridge Blues
TV • 1984
Angela Lane
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Jane Hussey
Casualty
TV • 1986
Annie McGann
The Royal
TV • 2003
Rosemary Briggs
The Woman in the Wall
TV • 2023
Sister Eileen
Casualty
TV • 1986
Morven Tasker
Testament of Youth
TV • 1979
Charlie
TV • 2015
Sarah Haughey
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Bonnie Hawkesworth
Black Earth Rising
TV • 2018
Sorcha Beattie
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Dulcie Greenhalgh
Peaky Blinders
TV • 2013
Bethany Boswell
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV • 1992
Calphurnia (voice)
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Olivia Reeves
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Polly
Warrior Nun
TV • 2020
Sister Frances
Gangs of London
TV • 2020
Niamh
Merlin
TV • 2008
Niede
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Diaphanta
The World of Wodehouse
TV • 1967
Angela
Karen Pirie
TV • 2022
Mary Grant Snr
Vanity Fair
TV • 1998
Mrs O'Dowd
Strangers
TV • 1978
DC Linda Doran