Frances Tomelty
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 6, 1948 (age 78)
- Birthplace
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
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
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
Movie · as Leader of the Guild
The Hairdresser Mysteries
TV · as Mrs Marigold · 1 ep
The Death of Bunny Munro
TV · as Candice Birch · 2 eps
Accused
Movie · as Mrs. Daly
The Woman in the Wall
TV · as Sister Eileen · 6 eps
Karen Pirie
TV · as Mary Grant Snr · 3 eps
The Nevers
TV · as Phoenicia Elizabeth Hague · 6 eps
Warrior Nun
TV · as Sister Frances · 2 eps
Gangs of London
TV · as Niamh · 1 ep
All Creatures Great & Small
TV · as Mrs Donovan · 1 ep
London Kills
TV · as Anne Garrick · 1 ep
Black Earth Rising
TV · as Sorcha Beattie · 1 ep
Apple Tree Yard
TV · as Price · 2 eps
Charlie
TV · as Sarah Haughey · 3 eps
Unforgotten
TV · as Maureen Sullivan · 6 eps
Catastrophe
TV · as Carol · 9 eps
Outlander
TV · as Elspeth Cunningham · 5 eps
The White Queen
TV · as Margaret Beauchamp · 3 eps
Atlantis
TV · as Anysia · 1 ep
Peaky Blinders
TV · as Bethany Boswell · 1 ep
Call the Midwife
TV · as Dulcie Greenhalgh · 1 ep
Death in Paradise
TV · as Olivia Reeves · 2 eps
Chéri
Movie · as Rose
Law & Order: UK
TV · as Sister Logan · 1 ep
Bonekickers
TV · as Karen Magwilde · 4 eps
Merlin
TV · as Niede · 1 ep
Sold
TV · as Lady Ellesmere · 1 ep
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV · as Kitty Porter · 6 eps
New Tricks
TV · as Jill Brewer · 1 ep
The Royal
TV · as Rosemary Briggs · 1 ep
Spooks
TV · as Carmen Joyce · 1 ep
Waking the Dead
TV · as Jane Hussey · 1 ep
Doctors
TV · as Susan Morrison · 1 ep
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
TV · as Mrs. Sullivan · 16 eps
Holby City
TV · as Patty Turner · 2 eps
Monk Dawson
Movie · as Mrs. Carter
Vanity Fair
TV · as Mrs O'Dowd · 4 eps
The Boxer
Movie · as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Audrey Monday · 1 ep
Trial & Retribution
TV · as Norma O'Sullivan · 1 ep
Silent Witness
TV · as Anne Cunningham, Margaret Armstrong · 2 eps
Kavanagh Q.C.
TV · as Gina Lomax · 1 ep
Nobody's Children
Movie · as Mme. Beziel
Julius Caesar
Movie · as Calphunia
99-1
TV · as Commander Stone · 8 eps
High Boot Benny
Movie · as Matron
Cracker
TV · as Mrs. Lang · 2 eps
Carlo Levi Stopped Here
Movie · as Self - Commentary
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV · as Calphurnia (voice) · 1 ep
Spender
TV · as Lorraine Hope · 1 ep
In Suspicious Circumstances
TV · as Maime · 1 ep
The Field
Movie · as Widow
Perfect Scoundrels
TV · as Patricia · 1 ep
4 Play
TV · as Julia Parrish · 1 ep
Burning Beds
Movie
Star Trap
Movie · as Hermione Bradstreet
Bellman and True
Movie · as Anna
Inspector Morse
TV · as Grace Craven · 1 ep
A Perfect Spy
TV · as Peggy Wentworth · 1 ep
Lamb
Movie · as Mrs. Kane
A State of Emergency
Movie · as Jackie Hampton
Casualty
TV · as Annie McGann, Morven Tasker · 1 ep
Boon
TV · as Nina Brack · 1 ep
Blue Money
Movie · as Fidelma
Radio Pictures
Movie · as Susanna Prine
Summer Season
TV · as Susanna Prine · 1 ep
Oxbridge Blues
TV · as Angela Lane · 1 ep
Bullshot
Movie · as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
Storyboard
TV · as Laura Grey · 1 ep
Under the Skin
Movie · as Polly
American Playhouse
TV · as Sheila Bennett Hatch · 3 eps
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
Movie · as Ruby
Bergerac
TV · as Bonnie Hawkesworth · 1 ep
Juno and the Paycock
Movie · as Juno Boyle
The Enigma Files
TV · as Josepha · 1 ep
Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Norma · 1 ep
Testament of Youth
TV · as Sister Hope Milroy · 5 eps
The Medusa Touch
Movie · as Nanny
Strangers
TV · as DC Linda Doran · 7 eps
Catchpenny Twist
Movie · as Monagh
Life and Death of Penelope
TV · as Susie · 1 ep
A Place to Hide
TV · as Ann Smith · 6 eps
The Romantic Englishwoman
Movie · as Airport Shop Assistant
Survivors
TV · as Mary Jean Mead · 1 ep
The Changeling
Movie · as Diaphanta
The Bouncing Boy
Movie · as Women at Hospital
A Touch of the Victorians
Movie · as Caroline Young
Pebble Mill at One
TV · 1 ep
Harriet's Back in Town
TV · as Wendy Barrett · 3 eps
Girl on the M1
Movie · as Student
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Movie · as Nun
Play for Today
TV · as Monagh, Polly, Nun, Woman in the Ward, Ruby · 1 ep
Man at the Top
TV · as Denise · 1 ep
The Doctors
TV · as Norah Daley · 1 ep
Ukridge
TV · as Angela · 1 ep
Callan
TV · as Second Woman · 1 ep
The World of Wodehouse
TV · as Angela · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Diaphanta · 1 ep
Coronation Street
TV · as Christine Peters · 3 eps
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Student, Caroline Young · 1 ep