Portrait of Frances Tomelty

Frances Tomelty

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.

Born: October 6, 1948

Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Filmography

2023
Accused

as Mrs. Daly

2023
The Woman in the Wall

as Sister Eileen

2022
Karen Pirie

as Mary Grant Snr

2020
Warrior Nun

as Sister Frances

2020
2018
Black Earth Rising

as Sorcha Beattie

2015
Charlie

as Sarah Haughey

2013
Atlantis

as Anysia

2013
Peaky Blinders

as Bethany Boswell

2013
The White Queen

as Margaret Beauchamp

2012
Call the Midwife

as Dulcie Greenhalgh

2011
Death in Paradise

as Olivia Reeves

2009
Chéri

as Rose

2008
Merlin

as Niede

2008
Bonekickers

as Karen Magwilde

2006
2003
The Royal

as Rosemary Briggs

2002
Spooks

as Carmen Joyce

2001
Waking the Dead

as Jane Hussey

1998
Vanity Fair

as Mrs. O'Dowd

1998
Monk Dawson

as Mrs. Carter

1997
The Boxer

as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Audrey Monday

1994
Julius Caesar

as Calphunia

1994
Nobody's Children

as Mme. Beziel

1993
Cracker

as Mrs. Lang

1993
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Calphurnia (voice)

1992
Carlo Levi Stopped Here

as Self - Commentary

1991
Spender

as Lorraine Hope

1990
The Field

as Widow

1987
1987
Inspector Morse

as Grace Craven

1986
A State of Emergency

as Jackie Hampton

1986
Lamb

as Mrs. Kane

1986
Casualty

as Annie McGann

1986
Casualty

as Morven Tasker

1985
Radio Pictures

as Susanna Prine

1985
Blue Money

as Fidelma

1984
Oxbridge Blues

as Angela Lane

1983
Bullshot

as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno

1982
1981
Bergerac

as Bonnie Hawkesworth

1980
1980
1978
1977
1975
The Romantic Englishwoman

as Airport Shop Assistant

1975
Survivors

as Mary Jean Mead

1974
The Changeling

as Diaphanta

1972
The Bouncing Boy

as Women at Hospital

1970
1967
1965
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Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead

as Leader of the Guild