Pauline Melville
Acting • Born 1948-01-01
Biography
Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature
Filmography
27 credits
Far from the Madding Crowd
Movie • 1967
Mrs. Tall
Home Away from Home
Movie • 1993
Neighbour
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Movie • 2014
Self
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Movie • 1988
Mrs Scratchit
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Movie • 2000
Maisie Kemp
Mona Lisa
Movie • 1986
George's Wife
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Movie • 1989
Sylvia Wallace
Brighton Rock
Movie • 2010
Mother Superior
Scrubbers
Movie • 1982
Crow
The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie • 1991
Prudencia
The Long Good Friday
Movie • 1980
Dora
Britannia Hospital
Movie • 1982
Clarissa
Shadowlands
Movie • 1993
Committee Chairwoman
Ulysses
Movie • 1967
Prostitute
Utz
Movie • 1992
Curator
Rat in the Skull
Movie • 1987
IRA Woman
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Movie • 1988
Pauline Sneak
Bottom Mindless Violence
Movie • 2004
Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
Girls On Top
TV • 1985
Yvonne
The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Vyvyan's Mum
The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Woman on Bus
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
TV • 1988
Spender
TV • 1991
Judge
2Point4 Children
TV • 1991
Babs
Red Dwarf
TV • 1988
Barmaid
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
TV • 1980
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Pauline Sneak