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

• 2026Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead — Leader of the Guild
• The Hairdresser Mysteries — Mrs Marigold
• The Death of Bunny Munro — Candice Birch
• 2023Accused — 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
• Gangs of London — Niamh
• Warrior Nun — Sister Frances
• London Kills — Anne Garrick
• Black Earth Rising — Sorcha Beattie
• Apple Tree Yard — Price
• Catastrophe — Carol
• Charlie — Sarah Haughey
• Unforgotten — Maureen Sullivan
• Outlander — Elspeth Cunningham
• Atlantis — Anysia
• Peaky Blinders — Bethany Boswell
• The White Queen — Margaret Beauchamp
• Call the Midwife — Dulcie Greenhalgh
• Death in Paradise — Olivia Reeves
• 2009Chéri — Rose
• Law & Order: UK — Sister Logan
• Bonekickers — Karen Magwilde
• Merlin — Niede
• 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
• Holby City — Patty Turner
• Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married — Mrs. Sullivan
• 1998Monk Dawson — Mrs. Carter
• Vanity Fair — Mrs O'Dowd
• Midsomer Murders — Audrey Monday
• 1997The Boxer — Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
• Trial & Retribution — Norma O'Sullivan
• Silent Witness — Anne Cunningham, Margaret Armstrong
• Kavanagh Q.C. — Gina Lomax
• 99-1 — Commander Stone
• 1994Julius Caesar — Calphunia
• 1994Nobody's Children — Mme. Beziel
• Cracker — Mrs. Lang
• 1993High Boot Benny — Matron
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Calphurnia (voice)
• In Suspicious Circumstances — Maime
• Spender — Lorraine Hope
• Perfect Scoundrels — Patricia
• 1990The Field — Widow
• 4 Play — Julia Parrish
• 1988Burning Beds
• 1988Star Trap — Hermione Bradstreet
• A Perfect Spy — Peggy Wentworth
• 1987Bellman and True — Anna
• Inspector Morse — Grace Craven
• 1986A State of Emergency — Jackie Hampton
• Boon — Nina Brack
• Casualty — Annie McGann, Morven Tasker
• 1986Lamb — Mrs. Kane
• 1985Blue Money — Fidelma
• 1985Radio Pictures — Susanna Prine
• Summer Season — Susanna Prine
• Oxbridge Blues — Angela Lane
• 1983Bullshot — Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
• Storyboard — Laura Grey
• American Playhouse — Sheila Bennett Hatch
• 1982Under the Skin — Polly
• Bergerac — Bonnie Hawkesworth
• 1981Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain — Ruby
• 1980Juno and the Paycock — Juno Boyle
• The Enigma Files — Josepha
• Tales of the Unexpected — Norma
• Testament of Youth — Sister Hope Milroy
• Strangers — DC Linda Doran
• 1978The Medusa Touch — Nanny
• 1977Catchpenny Twist — Monagh
• A Place to Hide — Ann Smith
• Life and Death of Penelope — Susie
• Survivors — Mary Jean Mead
• 1975The Romantic Englishwoman — Airport Shop Assistant
• 1974The Changeling — Diaphanta
• 1972A Touch of the Victorians — Caroline Young
• Harriet's Back in Town — Wendy Barrett
• Pebble Mill at One
• 1972The Bouncing Boy — Women at Hospital
• 1971Edna: The Inebriate Woman — Nun
• 1971Girl on the M1 — Student
• Man at the Top — Denise
• Play for Today — Monagh, Polly, Nun, Woman in the Ward, Ruby
• Special Branch — Student
• The Doctors — Norah Daley
• Ukridge — Angela
• Callan — Second Woman
• The World of Wodehouse — Angela
• BBC Play of the Month — Diaphanta
• Coronation Street — Christine Peters
• Armchair Theatre — Student, Caroline Young

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1992Carlo Levi Stopped Here — Self - Commentary