Sting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 2, 1951 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
- Credits
- 286
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.
Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of the Police. He has received three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations. As a solo musician and as a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. Sting has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors; a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music; Kennedy Center Honors; and the Polar Music Prize. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow.
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and former fitter at an engineering works. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father.
Sting attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. He learned to sing and play simultaneously by listening to records at 78 rpm. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer, and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher.[20] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years.
Sting performed jazz in the evenings, at weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary Bring On the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told Time "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way". Despite this, he chose not to legally change his name to "Sting". ...
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Known for
Filmography
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
2027Movie
Horsa
Nino – A Film About Nino Rota
2026Movie
Self – Narrator
Untold UK: Vinnie Jones
2026Movie
Self - (archive footage)
Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
2026Movie
Self
Sting - Sounds Like Art Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
2026Movie
GIMS à Paris la Défense Arena : le concert événement
2025Movie
Self : Guest (virtual)
In Thanks We Trust
2025Movie
Self
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
2025TV
Self
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
2025TV
Self
When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain
2025Movie
Self
Lubach
2025TV
FireAid Benefit Concert
2025Movie
Self
The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?
2024Movie
Self
Sting and the Police at the BBC
2024Movie
Self
Sting: Radio 2 in the Park
2024Movie
Self
Message in a Bottle
2024Movie
Self - Lead Vocals
Billy Joel: The 100th - Live at Madison Square Garden
2024Movie
Self
Dolly Parton - From Rhinestones to Rock & Roll
2023Movie
Self
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
2023Movie
Self
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
2023Movie
Self
WHAM!
2023Movie
Self (archive footage)
They All Came Out to Montreux
2023Movie
Self
The Book of Solutions
2023Movie
Sting
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022TV
Self (archive footage)
Christmas@Home 2022: Das Weihnachtskonzert mit Daniel Hope, Sting und weiteren Gästen
2022Movie
Self : Singer
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022Movie
Self
Sting : My Songs au château de Chambord
2022Movie
Self
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022Movie
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022TV
Self – Musician and songwriter
Sting, Daniel Hope & Freunde in Berlin Mit Golda Schultz, Bruce Liu u.v.m.
2022Movie
Lindisfarne's Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
2021Movie
Self
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
2021Movie
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Sting at the Pantheon in Paris - 50 Years of FIP Radio
2021Movie
Self
Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
2021Movie
Self
Only Murders in the Building
2021TV
Sting
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
2021Movie
Horsa
Mylène Farmer : Les Clips L'Intégrale (1999-2020)
2021Movie
Self
Under the Volcano
2021Movie
Self
Herb Alpert Is...
2020Movie
Self
Le Grand Concert Unis pour le Liban
2020Movie
Self
Mylène Farmer, l’Ultime Création
2020TV
Self
GIMS: On the Record
2020Movie
Self
Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats
2020Movie
Self
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
2020Movie
Self
Space Songs: Through the Distance
2020Movie
Self
The Big Night In
2020Movie
Self
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade
2019Movie
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
2019Movie
Self
Mylène Farmer: 2019 - Le Film
2019Movie
Self
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019Movie
Self
Sting & Shaggy au Château d'Hérouville
2019Movie
Self
I Want My MTV
2019Movie
Self
Reel Stories
2018TV
Self - Guest Star
Gurrumul
2018Movie
Self
The Queen's Birthday Party
2018Movie
Self - Performer
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
2018Movie
Self
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
2018Movie
Self - Performer
Sting - Grenzgänger und Freigeist
2017Movie
Self
Sting: A Free Man
2017Movie
Self
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
2017Movie
Self
Sting: Beyond The Police
2017Movie
Self - Musician
Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris
2017Movie
Self - Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road
2017TV
Self
The Dark Side of The Sun
2017Movie
Narrator
Sting au Bataclan
2016Movie
Self
Sting: 57th and 9th - The Interviews
2016Movie
Self
Sting Live At Irving Plaza
2016Movie
Self
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2016
2016Movie
Self
Rock'n'roll... Of Corse!
2016Movie
Self
Catherine et Liliane
2016TV
Sting
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
2016Movie
Self (archive footage)
Attenborough at 90
2016Movie
Self
Sonic Sea
2016Movie
Self
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
2016TV
Self - Performer
Zoolander 2
2016Movie
Sting
Mylène Farmer : Sur les pas d'une icône
2015Movie
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest/Musical Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015TV
Self
Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups
2015Movie
Self
Jaco
2015Movie
Self
Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship
2014Movie
Self
Sting: When the Last Ship Sails (Live at the Public Theater)
2014Movie
Self - Host, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
2014Movie
Self
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
2014Movie
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self, Self - Guest
The Michael J. Fox Show
2013TV
Sting
20 Feet from Stardom
2013Movie
Self
Radioman
2012Movie
Self
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police
2012Movie
Self
Finding Your Roots
2012TV
Self
CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
2011Movie
Self
Life's Too Short
2011TV
Sting
Sting - 25 Years
2011Movie
Self - Vocals, Bass
Sting Festival de Viña del Mar
2011Movie
Self
Sting: Live In Berlin
2010Movie
Self - Performer
2012: Time for Change
2010Movie
Self
Still Bill
2010Movie
Self
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!
2010Movie
Self
Hope for Haiti Now
2010Movie
Self
Bruce Springsteen - 32nd Annual of Kennedy Center Honors
2009Movie
Self
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009Movie
Self
Sting: A Winter's Night...Live From Durham Cathedral
2009Movie
Self
If on a Winter's Night ... Live from Durham Cathedral
2009Movie
Self
Twin Spirits: Sting performs Schumann
2009Movie
Robert Schumann
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009TV
Self - Guest
Brüno
2009Movie
Self - 'Dove of Peace'
PoliWood
2009Movie
Self
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009Movie
Self
Chris Botti in Boston
2009Movie
Self
The Tribute to Pavarotti One Amazing Weekend in Petra
2009Movie
Self
The Police: Certifiable
2008Movie
Self - Bass, Vocals
The Police: Better Than Therapy
2008Movie
Self
Little Britain USA
2008TV
Self
The Police: Live In Concert Tokyo
2008Movie
Self
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008Movie
Self
Markus Lanz
2008TV
Self
Pavarotti The Duets
2008Movie
Self
The Police Rock in Rio - Live Madrid
2008Movie
Self
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
2008TV
Self
X Factor
2008TV
Self - Guest
Bee Movie
2007Movie
Sting (voice)
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
2007Movie
Self
Inas Nacht
2007TV
Self
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007Movie
Self
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
2007Movie
Self
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
2007Movie
Self - The Police Member (archive footage)
The Police - Greatest Video Hits
2007Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
STING: The Journey & The Labyrinth
2007Movie
Self
The Police - Live in Rio
2007Movie
Self
Legends
2006TV
Self
Salut les Terriens !
2006TV
Self - Guest
Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests
2006Movie
Self
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006TV
Self
The One Show
2006TV
Self
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
2006Movie
Self
Live 8
2005Movie
Self
An Intimate Evening with Mary J. Blige - Live from the House of Blues
2005Movie
Self
Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today
2005Movie
Self
VH1 Storytellers
2005TV
Self
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
2004TV
Self - Musical Guest
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004Movie
Self
George Michael: A Different Story
2004Movie
Self
Live Aid
2004Movie
Self
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition
2004Movie
Self
Parkinson
2004TV
Self - Guest / Performer (archive footage)
Kulturplatz
2004TV
Self
Sting: The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland
2004Movie
Self
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004TV
Self
Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love
2003Movie
Self - Bass, Guitar, Lead Vocals
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self, Self - Musical Guest
The Police - Every Breath You Take
2003Movie
Self - Bass, Vocals
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self, Self - Musical Guest
Freedom Beat
2003Movie
Self
The Sweatbox
2002Movie
Self
Chris Botti & Friends - Night Sessions: Live in Concert
2002Movie
Self
CMT Crossroads
2002TV
Self
Sting ...All This Time
2001Movie
Self - Lead Singer
Being Mick
2001Movie
Self
Star Academy
2001TV
Self
The Police: Ghost in the Machine Tour - Live at Gateshead
2001Movie
Self
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001Movie
Self - Performer
All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
2001Movie
Self
The Beatles Revolution
2000Movie
Self
Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
2000Movie
Self - Vocals, Bass
The Filth and the Fury
2000Movie
Self (archive footage)
Tina Turner : Celebrate!
1999Movie
Self
Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads
1999Movie
Self
Rove
1999TV
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999TV
Self - Guest
TV total
1999TV
Self
Vivement dimanche
1998TV
Self
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998Movie
JD
The Mighty
1998Movie
The Balladeer
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward
1998Movie
Self
Parkinson
1998TV
Self
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998Movie
Billy Idol
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
1997Movie
Self (archive footage)
An Audience with Elton John
1997Movie
Self
Music for Montserrat
1997Movie
Self
Ally McBeal
1997TV
Sting
Behind the Music
1997TV
Self
Leute heute
1997TV
Self
The Police – Live Ghost In The Machine
1996Movie
Self - Vocals, Bass
TFI Friday
1996TV
Self
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995Movie
Self
MADtv
1995TV
Self
The Grotesque
1995Movie
Fledge
The Police - Outlandos To Synchronicities
1995Movie
Self
Lo + plus
1995TV
Self - Guest
To Milon tis Eridos
1994TV
Guest
Sting – Fields Of Gold - The Best Of Sting
1994Movie
Self (archive footage)
Sting - Englishman In Japan
1994Movie
Self
TOTP2
1994TV
Self
Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
1993Movie
Narrator (voice)
Take That Away!
1993Movie
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993TV
Self - Musical Guest
GMTV
1993TV
Self
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
1992Movie
Self
Later... with Jools Holland
1992TV
Pavarotti & Friends
1992Movie
Self
The Larry Sanders Show
1992TV
Sting
Sting's 40th Birthday Celebration: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
1991Movie
Self - Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin
1991Movie
Self - Guest
The Soul Cages Concert
1991Movie
Self
Sting Unplugged
1991Movie
Self - Double Bass, Vocals
Branford Marsalis: Steep
1991Movie
Self
One World, One Voice
1990Movie
Self
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990TV
Zarm (voice)
Resident Alien
1990Movie
Singer
The Simpsons
1989TV
Sting (voice)
Dance of Hope
1989Movie
MTV Unplugged
1989TV
Self
MTV Rockumentary
1989TV
Self
Under the Sun
1989TV
Self
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988Movie
Heroic Officer
Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires
1988Movie
Self
Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary
1988Movie
Self - Musician
Peter Gabriel, Sting, & Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Now!
1988Movie
Self - Musician
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self, Self - Guest
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988Movie
Self
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 3
1988Movie
Self
Stormy Monday
1988Movie
Finney
Julia and Julia
1988Movie
Daniel Hosler
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert
1988Movie
Self
Le monde est à vous
1987TV
Self
Sacrée soirée
1987TV
Self
Sting and Gil Evans: Strange Fruit
1987Movie
Self - Vocals, Electric Bass
The Best of Max Headroom
1987Movie
Self
Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Volume 1
1986Movie
Self
U2 & The Police: A Conspiracy of Hope
1986Movie
Self
Victoires de la musique
1985TV
Self
Sting - Bring on the Night
1985Movie
Self
Plenty
1985Movie
Mick
The Bride
1985Movie
Frankenstein
Live Aid
1985Movie
Self
Dire Straits at Live Aid
1985Movie
Self
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985Movie
Machiavelli
The Max Headroom Show
1985TV
Self
Dune
1984Movie
Feyd Rautha
'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video
1984Movie
Self
MTV Video Music Awards
1984TV
Self
The Police: Synchronicity Concert
1984Movie
Self - Bass, Vocals
Al TV
1984TV
Self (archive footage)
The Police - Live In Oakland
1983Movie
Self - Vocals, Bass
Police in Montserrat
1983Movie
Self
Destination Dune
1983Movie
Self
The Tube
1982TV
Brimstone & Treacle
1982Movie
Martin Taylor
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982Movie
Self
Late Night with David Letterman
1982TV
Self - Guest
Champs-Elysées
1982TV
Self, Self - The Police
The Police: Around The World
1982Movie
Self
Artemis '81
1981Movie
Helith
Urgh! A Music War
1981Movie
Self
De TV Show
1981TV
Self
Punk and Its Aftershocks
1980Movie
Self
Radio On
1979Movie
Just Like Eddie
Quadrophenia
1979Movie
Ace Face
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
1979Movie
Interviewee
The Police - Live '79 at Hatfield Polytechnic
1979Movie
Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979TV
The Kenny Everett Video Show
1978TV
Bio’s Bahnhof
1978TV
Self
The South Bank Show
1978TV
An Audience with...
1978TV
Self
The BRIT Awards
1977TV
Self
Acceleration Punk
1977Movie
Self
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976TV
Self
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host, Self - Host & Musical Guest, Self - Musical Guest
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975TV
Self
Rockpalast
1974TV
American Music Awards
1974TV
Self - Musical Guest
Film '72
1971TV
Self
The Old Grey Whistle Test
1971TV
Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967TV
Self
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
1963TV
Self - The Police, Self - Musical Guest
World in Action
1963TV
The Grammys
1959TV
Self
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Today
1952TV
Self
Bambi
1948TV
Self
Pinkpop - The Vintage Years (1975-1979)
Movie
Himself
Free Spirits
Movie
Guía
Sting - Live at iHeartRadio
Movie
Self