Frances Tomelty

Frances Tomelty

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: Acting

Born: Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1948-10-06

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1		Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead	Leader of the Guild	0
2	1971	Girl on the M1	Student	0
3	1972	A Touch of the Victorians	Caroline Young	0
4	1972	The Bouncing Boy	Women at Hospital	0
5	1974	The Changeling	Diaphanta	70
6	1975	The Romantic Englishwoman	Airport Shop Assistant	55
7	1977	Catchpenny Twist	Monagh	0
8	1978	The Medusa Touch	Nanny	68
9	1981	Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain	Ruby	0
10	1982	Under the Skin	Polly	0
11	1983	Bullshot	Fräulein Lenya von Bruno	55
12	1985	Blue Money	Fidelma	49
13	1986	Lamb	Mrs. Kane	56
14	1986	A State of Emergency	Jackie Hampton	13
15	1987	Bellman and True	Anna	65
16	1988	Star Trap	Hermione Bradstreet	0
17	1988	Burning Beds		70
18	1990	The Field	Widow	71
19	1992	Carlo Levi Stopped Here	Self - Commentary	0
20	1993	High Boot Benny	Matron	0
21	1994	Nobody's Children	Mme. Beziel	43
22	1994	Julius Caesar	Calphunia	0
23	1997	The Boxer	Mrs Maguire (uncredited)	67
24	1998	Monk Dawson	Mrs. Carter	54
25	2009	Chéri	Rose	61
26	2023	Accused	Mrs. Daly	63

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Diaphanta	50
2	1967	Callan		70
3	1970	Play for Today		63
4	1970	Play for Today	Polly	63
5	1972	Pebble Mill at One		0
6	1975	Survivors	Mary Jean Mead	79
7	1976	Life and Death of Penelope		0
8	1978	Strangers		70
9	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Norma	67
10	1979	Testament of Youth		73
11	1980	The Enigma Files	Josepha	55
12	1981	Bergerac	Bonnie Hawkesworth	67
13	1984	Oxbridge Blues	Angela Lane	50
14	1986	Casualty	Annie McGann	61
15	1986	Casualty	Morven Tasker	61
16	1987	Inspector Morse	Grace Craven	78
17	1990	Perfect Scoundrels	Patricia	60
18	1991	Spender	Lorraine Hope	70
19	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Calphurnia (voice)	64
20	1993	Cracker	Mrs. Lang	66
21	1996	Silent Witness		76
22	1997	Midsomer Murders	Audrey Monday	75
23	1997	Trial & Retribution		68
24	1998	Vanity Fair	Mrs. O'Dowd	77
25	2001	Waking the Dead	Jane Hussey	72
26	2002	Spooks	Carmen Joyce	77
27	2003	The Royal	Rosemary Briggs	76
28	2004	New Tricks		74
29	2006	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard		62
30	2008	Bonekickers	Karen Magwilde	56
31	2008	Merlin	Niede	78
32	2011	Death in Paradise	Olivia Reeves	74
33	2012	Call the Midwife	Dulcie Greenhalgh	75
34	2013	The White Queen	Margaret Beauchamp	73
35	2013	Peaky Blinders	Bethany Boswell	85
36	2013	Atlantis	Anysia	64
37	2015	Charlie	Sarah Haughey	10
38	2018	Black Earth Rising	Sorcha Beattie	67
39	2020	Gangs of London	Niamh	79
40	2020	Warrior Nun	Sister Frances	80
41	2023	The Woman in the Wall	Sister Eileen	67

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