Frances Tomelty
Frances Tomelty is a Northern Irish actress whose numerous television credits include Strangers, Testament of Youth, Inspector Morse, Cracker, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The White Queen and Unforgotten. Her theatre roles include playing Kate in the original production of Dancing at Lughnasa in Dublin. She was married to the musician Sting from 1976 to 1984.
Early life
Tomelty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the daughter of actor Joseph Tomelty and Lena Milligan.Career
Tomelty's television work has included Survivors, Bergerac, Blue Money, Inspector Morse, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Strangers, Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, Cracker, Spooks, Casualty, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Holby City, Law & Order: UK, The Royal, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Catastrophe, Death in Paradise as well as big-budget adaptations Atlantis, Merlin, The White Queen, and A Perfect Spy.On film, she has acted in Bellman and True, Monk Dawson, Bullshot, The Field, and Chéri.
Tomelty's theatre roles include Elaine Navazio in Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon ; Mia Schuurman in In the Talking Dark by Dolores Walshe ; Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel ; Momma in Doctor Heart by Peter Muller ; and Mrs Alving in Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen . Tomelty also portrayed Lady Macbeth in the Old Vic's disastrous 1980 production of Macbeth, with Peter O'Toole in the title role.