Frances Tomelty
Acting
1948-10-06 · Belfast, Northern Ireland
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.
Filmography
The Hairdresser Mysteries
2026 · Series
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
2026 · Movie
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025 · Series
Accused
2023 · Movie
The Woman in the Wall
2023 · Series
Karen Pirie
2022 · Series
The Nevers
2021 · Series
All Creatures Great & Small
2020 · Series
Warrior Nun
2020 · Series
Gangs of London
2020 · Series
London Kills
2019 · Series
Black Earth Rising
2018 · Series
Apple Tree Yard
2017 · Series
Unforgotten
2015 · Series
Catastrophe
2015 · Series
Charlie
2015 · Series
Outlander
2014 · Series
Atlantis
2013 · Series
Peaky Blinders
2013 · Series
The White Queen
2013 · Series
Call the Midwife
2012 · Series
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
Chéri
2009 · Movie
Law & Order: UK
2009 · Series
Merlin
2008 · Series
Bonekickers
2008 · Series
Sold
2007 · Series
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006 · Series
New Tricks
2004 · Series
The Royal
2003 · Series
Spooks
2002 · Series
Waking the Dead
2001 · Series
Doctors
2000 · Series
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
1999 · Series
Holby City
1999 · Series
Vanity Fair
1998 · Series
Monk Dawson
1998 · Movie
The Boxer
1997 · Movie
Trial & Retribution
1997 · Series
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · Series
Julius Caesar
1994 · Movie
Nobody's Children
1994 · Movie
99-1
1994 · Series
Cracker
1993 · Series
High Boot Benny
1993 · Movie
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Series
Carlo Levi Stopped Here
1992 · Movie
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991 · Series
Spender
1991 · Series
The Field
1990 · Movie
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Series
4 Play
1989 · Series
Burning Beds
1988 · Movie
Star Trap
1988 · Movie
Bellman and True
1987 · Movie
A Perfect Spy
1987 · Series
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
A State of Emergency
1986 · Movie
Lamb
1986 · Movie
Casualty
1986 · Series
Boon
1986 · Series
Radio Pictures
1985 · Movie
Summer Season
1985 · Series
Blue Money
1985 · Movie
Oxbridge Blues
1984 · Series
Bullshot
1983 · Movie
Storyboard
1983 · Series
Under the Skin
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
1981 · Movie
Bergerac
1981 · Series
The Enigma Files
1980 · Series
Juno and the Paycock
1980 · Movie
Testament of Youth
1979 · Series
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
Strangers
1978 · Series
The Medusa Touch
1978 · Movie
Catchpenny Twist
1977 · Movie
Life and Death of Penelope
1976 · Series
A Place to Hide
1976 · Series
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975 · Movie
Survivors
1975 · Series
The Changeling
1974 · Movie
The Bouncing Boy
1972 · Movie
Harriet's Back in Town
1972 · Series
Pebble Mill at One
1972 · Series
A Touch of the Victorians
1972 · Movie
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
1971 · Movie
Girl on the M1
1971 · Movie
Man at the Top
1970 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
The Doctors
1969 · Series
Special Branch
1969 · Series
Ukridge
1968 · Series
The World of Wodehouse
1967 · Series
Callan
1967 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Coronation Street
1960 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series