Frances Tomelty

Born: 1948-10-06

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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The Boxer

as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
Released: 1997-12-31

Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He...

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The Medusa Touch

as Nanny
Released: 1978-04-13

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe...

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Chéri

as Rose
Released: 2009-04-08

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship...

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Accused

as Mrs. Daly
Released: 2023-10-05

After a revenge obsessed society incorrectly selects its next target, a young man must survive...

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The Field

as Widow
Released: 1990-09-21

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the...

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The Romantic Englishwoman

as Airport Shop Assistant
Released: 1975-06-11

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually...

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Blue Money

as Fidelma
Released: 1985-03-01

Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full...

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Monk Dawson

as Mrs. Carter
Released: 1998-07-31

Monk Dawson is a film that was released in 1998, directed and produced by Tom Waller and...

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Lamb

as Mrs. Kane
Released: 1986-10-10

Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young...

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The Changeling

as Diaphanta
Released: 1974-01-20

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a...

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Bellman and True

as Anna
Released: 1987-11-12

Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security...

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Bullshot

as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
Released: 1983-10-27

The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing...

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A State of Emergency

as Jackie Hampton
Released: 1986-11-01

This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by...

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The Bouncing Boy

as Women at Hospital
Released: 1972-12-11

A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite...

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Catchpenny Twist

as Monagh
Released: 1977-12-05

Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who...

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Under the Skin

as Polly
Released: 1982-01-19

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an'...

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Burning Beds

as uncredited
Released: 1988-10-30

A comedy in which a German woman falls in love with a British pyromaniac.

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High Boot Benny

as Matron
Released: 1993-09-03

A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Ulster...

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Carlo Levi Stopped Here

as Self - Commentary
Released: 1992-07-28

The deep North-South divide in Italy is explored through the eyes of northern anti-fascist...

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Nobody's Children

as Mme. Beziel
Released: 1994-03-03

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

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Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

as Ruby
Released: 1981-11-24

Two women navigate the challenges of life on a wintry day in 1980s Belfast. While Ruby has a...

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Midsomer Murders

as Audrey Monday
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Death in Paradise

as Olivia Reeves
First aired: 2011-10-25

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...

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Call the Midwife

as Dulcie Greenhalgh
First aired: 2012-01-15

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Norma
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Play for Today

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Waking the Dead

as Jane Hussey
First aired: 2001-06-18

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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Peaky Blinders

as Bethany Boswell
First aired: 2013-09-12

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor...

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The Nevers

as Phoenicia Elizabeth Hague
First aired: 2021-04-11

In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women —...

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The Nevers

as Phoenicia Elisabeth Hague
First aired: 2021-04-11

In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women —...

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Cracker

as Mrs. Lang
First aired: 1993-09-27

The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight...

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Inspector Morse

as Grace Craven
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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Merlin

as Niede
First aired: 2008-09-20

The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers,...

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Gangs of London

as Niamh
First aired: 2020-04-23

When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum...

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Silent Witness

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-02-21

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology...

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New Tricks

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-01-01

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...

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Trial & Retribution

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-10-19

Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began...

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Bergerac

as Bonnie Hawkesworth
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Pebble Mill at One

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-09

Pebble Mill at One was a popular British lunchtime magazine, broadcast live from Monday to...

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Black Earth Rising

as Sorcha Beattie
First aired: 2018-09-10

As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and...

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Spooks

as Carmen Joyce
First aired: 2002-05-13

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they...

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Warrior Nun

as Sister Frances
First aired: 2020-07-02

After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the...

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Calphurnia (voice)
First aired: 1992-11-09

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by...

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The White Queen

as Margaret Beauchamp
First aired: 2013-06-16

Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught...

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Atlantis

as Anysia
First aired: 2013-09-28

A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and...

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The Woman in the Wall

as Sister Eileen
First aired: 2023-08-27

When Lorna Brady, a survivor of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, wakes to find a corpse in...

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Casualty

as Annie McGann
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Casualty

as Morven Tasker
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Survivors

as Mary Jean Mead
First aired: 1975-04-16

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and...

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Vanity Fair

as uncredited
First aired: 1998-11-01

Becky Sharp is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at...

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Spender

as Lorraine Hope
First aired: 1991-01-08

Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed...

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The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-10-03

Supermarket manager Ros Pritchard decides to stand for election and her steady gains of support...

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Strangers

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-06-05

Strangers is a UK police drama that appeared on ITV between 1978 and 1982. After the success of...

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Callan

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-07-08

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage....

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Oxbridge Blues

as Angela Lane
First aired: 1984-11-14

An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the...

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Testament of Youth

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-11-04

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth---a memorial to a...

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Bonekickers

as Karen Magwilde
First aired: 2008-07-08

Bonekickers was a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex...

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Charlie

as Sarah Haughey
First aired: 2015-01-04

The political and personal life of Charlie Haughey during his time in office.

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The Royal

as Rosemary Briggs
First aired: 2003-01-19

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled...

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