Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1948
Place of Birth
Guyana
Credits
26 titles
Pauline Melville
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
Known For
Filmography
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Self
Brighton Rock
Mother Superior
Bottom Mindless Violence
Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Maisie Kemp
Shadowlands
Committee Chairwoman
Home Away from Home
Neighbour
Utz
Curator
The House of Bernarda Alba
Prudencia
2Point4 Children
Babs
Spender
Judge
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Sylvia Wallace
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Mrs Scratchit
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Pauline Sneak
Red Dwarf
Barmaid
Rat in the Skull
IRA Woman
Mona Lisa
George's Wife
Girls On Top
Yvonne
The Young Ones
Vyvyan's Mum
The Comic Strip Presents...
Pauline Sneak
Scrubbers
Crow
Britannia Hospital
Clarissa
The Long Good Friday
Dora
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Far from the Madding Crowd
Mrs. Tall
Ulysses
Prostitute