Frances Tomelty

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 Vics disastrous 1980 production of Macbeth with Peter OToole in the title role In 1976 she married Sting after knowing him for two years They met on the set of a rockmusical 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 Tomeltys later work includes roles in the series Spooks Casualty and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard Description above from the Wikipedia article Frances Tomelty licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia