Pauline Melville
Known for: Acting
Born: December 31, 1947 in Guyana
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
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Mrs. Tall
Home Away from Home
Neighbour
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Self
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Mrs Scratchit
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Maisie Kemp
Mona Lisa
George's Wife
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Sylvia Wallace
Brighton Rock
Mother Superior
Scrubbers
Crow
The House of Bernarda Alba
Prudencia
The Long Good Friday
Dora
Britannia Hospital
Clarissa
Ulysses
Prostitute
Shadowlands
Committee Chairwoman
Utz
Curator
Rat in the Skull
IRA Woman
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Pauline Sneak
Bottom Mindless Violence
Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
Girls On Top
Yvonne
The Young Ones
Vyvyan's Mum
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Spender
Judge
2Point4 Children
Babs
Red Dwarf
Barmaid