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
2026
- The Hairdresser Mysteries as Mrs Marigold
- Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead as Leader of the Guild
2025
- The Death of Bunny Munro as Candice Birch
2023
- The Woman in the Wall as Sister Eileen
- Accused as Mrs. Daly
2022
- Karen Pirie as Mary Grant Snr
2021
- The Nevers as Phoenicia Elizabeth Hague
2020
- All Creatures Great & Small as Mrs Donovan
- Gangs of London as Niamh
- Warrior Nun as Sister Frances
2019
- London Kills as Anne Garrick
2018
- Black Earth Rising as Sorcha Beattie
2017
- Apple Tree Yard as Price
2015
- Unforgotten as Maureen Sullivan
- Catastrophe as Carol
- Charlie as Sarah Haughey
2014
- Outlander as Elspeth Cunningham
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
- Law & Order: UK as Sister Logan
- Chéri as Rose
2008
- Merlin as Niede
- Bonekickers as Karen Magwilde
2007
- Sold as Lady Ellesmere
2006
- The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Kitty Porter
2004
- New Tricks as Jill Brewer
2003
- The Royal as Rosemary Briggs
2002
- Spooks as Carmen Joyce
2001
- Waking the Dead as Jane Hussey
2000
- Doctors as Susan Morrison
1999
- Holby City as Patty Turner
- Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married as Mrs. Sullivan
1998
- Vanity Fair as Mrs O'Dowd
- Monk Dawson as Mrs. Carter
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Audrey Monday
- Trial & Retribution as Norma O'Sullivan
- The Boxer as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
1996
- Silent Witness as Anne Cunningham
1995
- Kavanagh Q.C. as Gina Lomax
1994
- 99-1 as Commander Stone
- Julius Caesar as Calphunia
- Nobody's Children as Mme. Beziel
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
- In Suspicious Circumstances as Maime
- Spender as Lorraine Hope
1990
- The Field as Widow
- Perfect Scoundrels as Patricia
1989
- 4 Play as Julia Parrish
1988
- Star Trap as Hermione Bradstreet
- Burning Beds
1987
- Inspector Morse as Grace Craven
- A Perfect Spy as Peggy Wentworth
- Bellman and True as Anna
1986
- Casualty as Annie McGann
- Boon as Nina Brack
- Lamb as Mrs. Kane
- A State of Emergency as Jackie Hampton
1985
- Summer Season as Susanna Prine
- Radio Pictures as Susanna Prine
- Blue Money as Fidelma
1984
- Oxbridge Blues as Angela Lane
1983
- Storyboard as Laura Grey
- Bullshot as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
1982
- American Playhouse as Sheila Bennett Hatch
- 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
- Tales of the Unexpected as Norma
- Testament of Youth as Sister Hope Milroy
1978
- Strangers as DC Linda Doran
- The Medusa Touch as Nanny
1977
- Catchpenny Twist as Monagh
1976
- Life and Death of Penelope as Susie
- A Place to Hide as Ann Smith
1975
- Survivors as Mary Jean Mead
- The Romantic Englishwoman as Airport Shop Assistant
1974
- The Changeling as Diaphanta
1972
- Pebble Mill at One
- Harriet's Back in Town as Wendy Barrett
- A Touch of the Victorians as Caroline Young
- The Bouncing Boy as Women at Hospital
1971
- Edna: The Inebriate Woman as Nun
- Girl on the M1 as Student
1970
- Play for Today as Monagh
- Man at the Top as Denise
1969
- The Doctors as Norah Daley
- Special Branch as Student
1968
- Ukridge as Angela
1967
- Callan as Second Woman
- The World of Wodehouse as Angela
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Diaphanta
1960
- Coronation Street as Christine Peters
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Student