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Frances Tomelty

Frances Tomelty

Acting

Born: 1948 Belfast, Northern Ireland 29 Global Credits 🔥 1.3 Popularity
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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.

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Show / Title Year Credit / Role
The Hairdresser Mysteries 2026 Mrs Marigold
The Woman in the Wall 2023 Sister Eileen
Karen Pirie 2022 Mary Grant Snr
Warrior Nun 2020 Sister Frances
Gangs of London 2020 Niamh
Black Earth Rising 2018 Sorcha Beattie
Outlander 2014 Elspeth Cunningham
Atlantis 2013 Anysia
Peaky Blinders 2013 Bethany Boswell
The White Queen 2013 Margaret Beauchamp
Call the Midwife 2012 Dulcie Greenhalgh
Death in Paradise 2011 Olivia Reeves
Bonekickers 2008 Karen Magwilde
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard 2006 Kitty Porter
New Tricks 2004 Contributor
Spooks 2002 Carmen Joyce
Waking the Dead 2001 Jane Hussey
Trial & Retribution 1997 Norma O'Sullivan
Midsomer Murders 1997 Audrey Monday
Cracker 1993 Mrs. Lang
Inspector Morse 1987 Grace Craven
Casualty 1986 Annie McGann
American Playhouse 1982 Sheila Bennett Hatch
Bergerac 1981 Bonnie Hawkesworth
Tales of the Unexpected 1979 Norma
Survivors 1975 Mary Jean Mead
Pebble Mill at One 1972 Contributor
Callan 1967 Contributor
BBC Play of the Month 1965 Diaphanta