Frances Tomelty

Actor Oct 6 (age 77) Belfast, Northern Ireland 1956–2026 (70 year career)

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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 producti…

Known For

Film

Outlander

Elspeth Cunningham

Film

The Boxer

Mrs Maguire (uncredited)

Film

The Medusa Touch

Nanny

Film

Chéri

Rose

Film

The Field

Widow

Film

Karen Pirie

Mary Grant Snr

Film

The Woman in the Wall

Sister Eileen

Film

Accused

Mrs. Daly

Filmography

Acting (75)

Movies (28)

Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead

2026

as Leader of the Guild

Accused

as Mrs. Daly

Chéri

as Rose

Monk Dawson

as Mrs. Carter

The Boxer

as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)

Nobody's Children

as Mme. Beziel

Julius Caesar

as Calphunia

High Boot Benny

1993

as Matron

Carlo Levi Stopped Here

1992

as Self - Commentary

The Field

as Widow

Burning Beds

Star Trap

as Hermione Bradstreet

Bellman and True

as Anna

A State of Emergency

as Jackie Hampton

Lamb

as Mrs. Kane

Blue Money

as Fidelma

Radio Pictures

as Susanna Prine

Bullshot

1983

as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno

5.5

Under the Skin

1982

as Polly

Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

1981

as Ruby

Juno and the Paycock

1980

as Juno Boyle

The Medusa Touch

1978

as Nanny

6.8

Catchpenny Twist

1977

as Monagh

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975

as Airport Shop Assistant

The Changeling

as Diaphanta

The Bouncing Boy

as Women at Hospital

A Touch of the Victorians

1972

as Caroline Young

Girl on the M1

1971

as Student

Television (47)

The Woman in the Wall

as Sister Eileen

Karen Pirie

as Mary Grant Snr

The Nevers

as Phoenicia Elizabeth Hague

Gangs of London

as Niamh

Warrior Nun

as Sister Frances

Black Earth Rising

as Sorcha Beattie

Charlie

as Sarah Haughey

Outlander

as Elspeth Cunningham

Peaky Blinders

as Bethany Boswell

The White Queen

as Margaret Beauchamp

Atlantis

as Anysia

Call the Midwife

as Dulcie Greenhalgh

Death in Paradise

as Olivia Reeves

Merlin

as Niede

Bonekickers

as Karen Magwilde

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

as Kitty Porter

New Tricks

The Royal

as Rosemary Briggs

Spooks

as Carmen Joyce

Waking the Dead

as Jane Hussey

Vanity Fair

as Mrs. O'Dowd

Vanity Fair

as Mrs O'Dowd

Midsomer Murders

as Audrey Monday

Trial & Retribution

Silent Witness

Cracker

as Mrs. Lang

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

1992

as Calphurnia (voice)

Spender

as Lorraine Hope

Perfect Scoundrels

as Patricia

Inspector Morse

as Grace Craven

Casualty

as Annie McGann

Oxbridge Blues

as Angela Lane

American Playhouse

as Sheila Bennett Hatch

6.4

Bergerac

1981

as Bonnie Hawkesworth

6.7

The Enigma Files

1980

as Josepha

5.5

Tales of the Unexpected

as Norma

Testament of Youth

Strangers

Strangers

as DC Linda Doran

Life and Death of Penelope

Survivors

as Mary Jean Mead

Pebble Mill at One

Play for Today

Callan

The World of Wodehouse

1967

as Angela

BBC Play of the Month

as Diaphanta

Armchair Theatre

as Caroline Young