Frances Tomelty
Born: 1948-10-06 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead as Leader of the Guild
2023
- Accused as Mrs. Daly
- The Woman in the Wall as Sister Eileen
2022
- Karen Pirie as Mary Grant Snr
2020
- Gangs of London as Niamh
- Warrior Nun as Sister Frances
2018
- Black Earth Rising as Sorcha Beattie
2015
- Charlie as Sarah Haughey
2013
- Peaky Blinders as Bethany Boswell
- The White Queen as Margaret Beauchamp
- Atlantis as Anysia
2012
- Call the Midwife as Dulcie Greenhalgh
2011
- Death in Paradise as Olivia Reeves
2009
- Chéri as Rose
2008
- Merlin as Niede
- Bonekickers as Karen Magwilde
2006
- The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Kitty Porter
2004
2003
- The Royal as Rosemary Briggs
2002
- Spooks as Carmen Joyce
2001
- Waking the Dead as Jane Hussey
1998
- Monk Dawson as Mrs. Carter
- Vanity Fair as Mrs. O'Dowd
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Audrey Monday
- Trial & Retribution
- The Boxer as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
1996
1994
- Nobody's Children as Mme. Beziel
- Julius Caesar as Calphunia
1993
- Cracker as Mrs. Lang
- High Boot Benny as Matron
1992
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Calphurnia (voice)
- Carlo Levi Stopped Here as Self - Commentary
1991
- Spender as Lorraine Hope
1990
- The Field as Widow
- Perfect Scoundrels as Patricia
1988
- Star Trap as Hermione Bradstreet
- Burning Beds
1987
- Inspector Morse as Grace Craven
- Bellman and True as Anna
1986
- Casualty as Annie McGann
- Lamb as Mrs. Kane
- A State of Emergency as Jackie Hampton
1985
- Blue Money as Fidelma
- Radio Pictures as Susanna Prine
1984
- Oxbridge Blues as Angela Lane
1983
- Bullshot as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
1982
- Under the Skin as Polly
1981
- Bergerac as Bonnie Hawkesworth
- Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain as Ruby
1980
- The Enigma Files as Josepha
- Juno and the Paycock as Juno Boyle
1979
1978
- The Medusa Touch as Nanny
- Strangers
1977
- Catchpenny Twist as Monagh
1975
- Survivors as Mary Jean Mead
- The Romantic Englishwoman as Airport Shop Assistant
1974
- The Changeling as Diaphanta
1972
- Pebble Mill at One
- A Touch of the Victorians as Caroline Young
- The Bouncing Boy as Women at Hospital
1971
- Girl on the M1 as Student
1970
1967
- Callan
- The World of Wodehouse as Angela
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Diaphanta