Pauline Melville
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
Acted in
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
as Self
Brighton Rock
2010
as Mother Superior
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
as Maisie Kemp
Shadowlands
1993
as Committee Chairwoman
Home Away from Home
1993
as Neighbour
Utz
1992
as Curator
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
as Prudencia
2Point4 Children
1991
as Babs
Spender
1991
as Judge
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989
as Sylvia Wallace
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Mrs Scratchit
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
as Pauline Sneak
Red Dwarf
1988
as Barmaid
Rat in the Skull
1987
as IRA Woman
Mona Lisa
1986
as George's Wife
Girls On Top
1985
as Yvonne
Blackadder
1983
as Mrs Scratchit
The Young Ones
1982
as Vyvyan's Mum
The Young Ones
1982
as Woman on Bus
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Pauline Sneak
Scrubbers
1982
as Crow
Britannia Hospital
1982
as Clarissa
The Long Good Friday
1980
as Dora
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
as Mrs. Tall
Ulysses
1967
as Prostitute