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
Complete Filmography
Accused
2023
as Mrs. Daly
After a revenge obsessed society incorrectly selects its next target, a young man must survive the night as the online witch-hunt arrives at his front...
Chéri
2009
as Rose
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of l...
Monk Dawson
1998
as Mrs. Carter
Monk Dawson is a film that was released in 1998, directed and produced by Tom Waller and starring John Michie, Benedict Taylor, Rhona Mitra and Paula ...
The Boxer
1997
as Mrs Maguire (uncredited)
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlf...
Julius Caesar
1994
as Calphunia
A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of the state.
Nobody's Children
1994
as Mme. Beziel
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
High Boot Benny
1993
as Matron
A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Ulster and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant schoo...
Carlo Levi Stopped Here
1992
as Self - Commentary
The deep North-South divide in Italy is explored through the eyes of northern anti-fascist writer and painter, Carlo Levi, who is exiled by Mussolini ...
The Field
1990
as Widow
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell...
Burning Beds
1988
Harry, a timpanist and pyromaniac, and Ginamove into the same apartment due to Hamburg's housing shortage. This is the beginning of a wonderful enmity...
Star Trap
1988
as Hermione Bradstreet
Two rival detectives investigate a murder that involves black magic.
Bellman and True
1987
as Anna
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the inf...
A State of Emergency
1986
as Jackie Hampton
This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Mar...
Lamb
1986
as Mrs. Kane
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two reco...
Blue Money
1985
as Fidelma
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.
Bullshot
1983
as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - m...
Under the Skin
1982
as Polly
"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling....
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
1981
as Ruby
Two women navigate the challenges of life on a wintry day in 1980s Belfast. While Ruby has a cold and gets caught in the rain, Iris is job-hunting but...
The Medusa Touch
1978
as Nanny
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He re...
Catchpenny Twist
1977
as Monagh
Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who thinks they are working for British Army Intelligence? And ...
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
as Airport Shop Assistant
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going ...
The Changeling
1974
as Diaphanta
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Fil...
The Bouncing Boy
1972
as Women at Hospital
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
A Touch of the Victorians
1972
as Caroline Young
An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.
Girl on the M1
1971
as Student
A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
N/A
as Leader of the Guild
A young man is haunted by visions of the future ever since he got struck by the lightning.