Pauline Melville
Birthday
1948/01/01 (77 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Guyana
Also know as
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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
Acting
(1967) Far from the Madding Crowd
as Mrs. Tall
(1993) Home Away from Home
as Neighbour
(2014) Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Self
(1988) Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
(2002) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Maisie Kemp
(1986) Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
(1989) How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
(2010) Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
(1982) Scrubbers
as Crow
(1991) The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
(1980) The Long Good Friday
as Dora
(1982) Britannia Hospital
as Clarissa
(1967) Ulysses
as Prostitute
(1993) Shadowlands
as Committee Chairwoman
(1992) Utz
as Curator
(1987) Rat in the Skull
as IRA Woman
(1988) Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak
(1985) Girls On Top
as Yvonne
(1982) The Young Ones
as Vyvyan's Mum
(1982) The Young Ones
as Woman on Bus
(1988) Alexei Sayle's Stuff
as ---
(1991) Spender
as Judge
(1991) 2Point4 Children
as Babs
(1988) Red Dwarf
as Barmaid
(1980) Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
as ---
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Pauline Sneak
(1983) Blackadder
as Mrs Scratchit