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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 6, 1948
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Frances Tomelty
0.8 Popularity
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
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Leader of the Guild
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
2025
6.2
Mrs. Daly
Accused
2023
6.7
Sister Eileen
The Woman in the Wall
2023
6.9
Mary Grant Snr
Karen Pirie
2022
8.0
Sister Frances
Warrior Nun
2020
7.8
Niamh
Gangs of London
2020
6.8
Sorcha Beattie
Black Earth Rising
2018
1.0
Sarah Haughey
Charlie
2015
6.4
Anysia
Atlantis
2013
8.5
Bethany Boswell
Peaky Blinders
2013
Credits
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
as Leader of the Guild
2025
0.0
Accused
as Mrs. Daly
2023
6.2
The Woman in the Wall
as Sister Eileen
2023
6.7
Karen Pirie
as Mary Grant Snr
2022
6.9
Warrior Nun
as Sister Frances
2020
8.0
Gangs of London
as Niamh
2020
7.8
Black Earth Rising
as Sorcha Beattie
2018
6.8
Charlie
as Sarah Haughey
2015
1.0
Atlantis
as Anysia
2013
6.4
Peaky Blinders
as Bethany Boswell
2013
8.5
The White Queen
as Margaret Beauchamp
2013
7.3
Call the Midwife
as Dulcie Greenhalgh
2012
7.5
Death in Paradise
as Olivia Reeves
2011
7.5
Chéri
as Rose
2009
6.0
Merlin
as Niede
2008
7.8
Bonekickers
as Karen Magwilde
2008
5.6
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as Kitty Porter
2006
6.2
New Tricks
2004
7.4
The Royal
as Rosemary Briggs
2003
7.6
Spooks
as Carmen Joyce
2002
7.7
Waking the Dead
as Jane Hussey
2001
7.2
Vanity Fair
as Mrs. O'Dowd
1998
7.6
Monk Dawson
as Mrs. Carter
1998
4.7
The Boxer
as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
1997
6.7
Trial & Retribution
1997
6.8
Midsomer Murders
as Audrey Monday
1997
7.5
Silent Witness
1996
7.5
Julius Caesar
as Calphunia
1994
0.0
Nobody's Children
as Mme. Beziel
1994
4.3
Cracker
as Mrs. Lang
1993
6.6
High Boot Benny
as Matron
1993
0.0
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Calphurnia (voice)
1992
6.3
Carlo Levi Stopped Here
as Self - Commentary
1992
0.0
Spender
as Lorraine Hope
1991
7.0
The Field
as Widow
1990
7.0
🎬
Perfect Scoundrels
as Patricia
1990
6.0
Burning Beds
1988
7.0
🎬
Star Trap
as Hermione Bradstreet
1988
0.0
Bellman and True
as Anna
1987
6.2
Inspector Morse
as Grace Craven
1987
7.8
A State of Emergency
as Jackie Hampton
1986
1.3
Lamb
as Mrs. Kane
1986
5.5
Casualty
as Annie McGann
1986
6.1
Casualty
as Morven Tasker
1986
6.1
Radio Pictures
as Susanna Prine
1985
0.0
Blue Money
as Fidelma
1985
4.9
Oxbridge Blues
as Angela Lane
1984
5.0
Bullshot
as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
1983
5.5
Under the Skin
as Polly
1982
0.0
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
as Ruby
1981
0.0
Bergerac
as Bonnie Hawkesworth
1981
6.7
The Enigma Files
as Josepha
1980
5.5
Juno and the Paycock
as Juno Boyle
1980
0.0
Testament of Youth
1979
7.3
Tales of the Unexpected
as Norma
1979
6.7
Strangers
1978
7.0
The Medusa Touch
as Nanny
1978
6.8
Catchpenny Twist
as Monagh
1977
0.0
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Life and Death of Penelope
1976
0.0
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Airport Shop Assistant
1975
5.4
Survivors
as Mary Jean Mead
1975
8.0
The Changeling
as Diaphanta
1974
7.0
The Bouncing Boy
as Women at Hospital
1972
0.0
Pebble Mill at One
1972
0.0
🎬
A Touch of the Victorians
as Caroline Young
1972
0.0
🎬
Girl on the M1
as Student
1971
0.0
Play for Today
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Polly
1970
6.3
Callan
1967
7.0
🎬
The World of Wodehouse
as Angela
1967
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Diaphanta
1965
5.0