Frances Tomelty
- Acting
- October 6, 1948 · 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
- The Hairdresser Mysteries · Mrs Marigold
- Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead · Leader of the Guild
- The Death of Bunny Munro · Candice Birch
- Accused · Mrs. Daly
- The Woman in the Wall · Sister Eileen
- Karen Pirie · Mary Grant Snr
- The Nevers · Phoenicia Elizabeth Hague
- All Creatures Great & Small · Mrs Donovan
- Warrior Nun · Sister Frances
- Gangs of London · Niamh
- London Kills · Anne Garrick
- Black Earth Rising · Sorcha Beattie
- Apple Tree Yard · Price
- Unforgotten · Maureen Sullivan
- Catastrophe · Carol
- Charlie · Sarah Haughey
- Outlander · Elspeth Cunningham
- Atlantis · Anysia
- Peaky Blinders · Bethany Boswell
- The White Queen · Margaret Beauchamp
- Call the Midwife · Dulcie Greenhalgh
- Death in Paradise · Olivia Reeves
- Chéri · Rose
- Law & Order: UK · Sister Logan
- Merlin · Niede
- Bonekickers · Karen Magwilde
- Sold · Lady Ellesmere
- The Amazing Mrs Pritchard · Kitty Porter
- New Tricks · Jill Brewer
- The Royal · Rosemary Briggs
- Spooks · Carmen Joyce
- Waking the Dead · Jane Hussey
- Doctors · Susan Morrison
- Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married · Mrs. Sullivan
- Holby City · Patty Turner
- Vanity Fair · Mrs O'Dowd
- Monk Dawson · Mrs. Carter
- The Boxer · Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
- Trial & Retribution · Norma O'Sullivan
- Midsomer Murders · Audrey Monday
- Silent Witness · Anne Cunningham, Margaret Armstrong
- Kavanagh Q.C. · Gina Lomax
- Julius Caesar · Calphunia
- Nobody's Children · Mme. Beziel
- 99-1 · Commander Stone
- Cracker · Mrs. Lang
- High Boot Benny · Matron
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales · Calphurnia (Voice)
- Carlo Levi Stopped Here · Self
- In Suspicious Circumstances · Maime
- Spender · Lorraine Hope
- The Field · Widow
- Perfect Scoundrels · Patricia
- 4 Play · Julia Parrish
- Burning Beds
- Star Trap · Hermione Bradstreet
- Bellman and True · Anna
- A Perfect Spy · Peggy Wentworth
- Inspector Morse · Grace Craven
- A State of Emergency · Jackie Hampton
- Lamb · Mrs. Kane
- Casualty · Annie McGann, Morven Tasker
- Boon · Nina Brack
- Radio Pictures · Susanna Prine
- Summer Season · Susanna Prine
- Blue Money · Fidelma
- Oxbridge Blues · Angela Lane
- Bullshot · Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
- Storyboard · Laura Grey
- Under the Skin · Polly
- American Playhouse · Sheila Bennett Hatch
- Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain · Ruby
- Bergerac · Bonnie Hawkesworth
- The Enigma Files · Josepha
- Juno and the Paycock · Juno Boyle
- Testament of Youth · Sister Hope Milroy
- Tales of the Unexpected · Norma
- Strangers · DC Linda Doran
- The Medusa Touch · Nanny
- Catchpenny Twist · Monagh