Frances Tomelty

Acting

Frances Tomelty

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Oct 06, 1948 (76 years old)

Frances Tomelty

Known For

Accused
1h 28m
Movie 2023

Accused

After a revenge obsessed society incorrectly selects its next target,...

The Woman in the Wall
TV Show 2023

The Woman in the Wall

When Lorna Brady, a survivor of one of Ireland's Magdalene...

Charlie
1h 12m
TV Show 2015

Charlie

The political and personal life of Charlie Haughey during his...

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
1h 0m
TV Show 2006

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

Supermarket manager Ros Pritchard decides to stand for election and...

Vanity Fair
0h 50m
TV Show 1998

Vanity Fair

Becky Sharp is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined...

Julius Caesar
0h 25m
Movie 1994

Julius Caesar

A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of...

Nobody's Children
1h 35m
Movie 1994

Nobody's Children

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian...

High Boot Benny
1h 22m
Movie 1993

High Boot Benny

A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated...

Carlo Levi Stopped Here
0h 39m
Movie 1992

Carlo Levi Stopped Here

The deep North-South divide in Italy is explored through the...

The Field
1h 50m
Movie 1990

The Field

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing...

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.