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Frances Tomelty
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 Marc…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frances Tomelty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
The Hairdresser Mysteries
TV show Mrs Marigold
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2026
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
Movie Leader of the Guild
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2025
The Death of Bunny Munro
TV show Candice Birch
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2023
Accused
Movie Mrs. Daly
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2023
The Woman in the Wall
TV show Sister Eileen
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2022
Karen Pirie
TV show Mary Grant Snr
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2021
The Nevers
TV show Phoenicia Elizabeth Hague
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2020
All Creatures Great & Small
TV show Mrs Donovan
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2020
Warrior Nun
TV show Sister Frances
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2020
Gangs of London
TV show Niamh
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2019
London Kills
TV show Anne Garrick
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2018
Black Earth Rising
TV show Sorcha Beattie
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2017
Apple Tree Yard
TV show Price
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2015
Unforgotten
TV show Maureen Sullivan
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2015
Catastrophe
TV show Carol
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2015
Charlie
TV show Sarah Haughey
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2014
Outlander
TV show Elspeth Cunningham
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2013
Atlantis
TV show Anysia
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2013
Peaky Blinders
TV show Bethany Boswell
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2013
The White Queen
TV show Margaret Beauchamp
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2012
Call the Midwife
TV show Dulcie Greenhalgh
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2011
Death in Paradise
TV show Olivia Reeves
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2009
Chéri
Movie Rose
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2009
Law & Order: UK
TV show Sister Logan
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2008
Merlin
TV show Niede
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2008
Bonekickers
TV show Karen Magwilde
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2007
Sold
TV show Lady Ellesmere
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2006
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV show Kitty Porter
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2004
New Tricks
TV show Jill Brewer
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2003
The Royal
TV show Rosemary Briggs
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2002
Spooks
TV show Carmen Joyce
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2001
Waking the Dead
TV show Jane Hussey
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2000
Doctors
TV show Susan Morrison
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1999
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
TV show Mrs. Sullivan
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1999
Holby City
TV show Patty Turner
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1998
Vanity Fair
TV show Mrs O'Dowd
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1998
Monk Dawson
Movie Mrs. Carter
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1997
The Boxer
Movie Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
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1997
Trial & Retribution
TV show Norma O'Sullivan
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1997
Midsomer Murders
TV show Audrey Monday
