Pauline Melville
Born: 1948-01-01 in Guyana
Known For: Acting
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
2014
- Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule as Self
2010
- Brighton Rock as Mother Superior
2004
- Bottom Mindless Violence as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Maisie Kemp
1993
- Shadowlands as Committee Chairwoman
- Home Away from Home as Neighbour
1992
- Utz as Curator
1991
- 2Point4 Children as Babs
- Spender as Judge
- The House of Bernarda Alba as Prudencia
1989
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising as Sylvia Wallace
1988
- Red Dwarf as Barmaid
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Mrs Scratchit
- Didn't You Kill My Brother? as Pauline Sneak
- Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1987
- Rat in the Skull as IRA Woman
1986
- Mona Lisa as George's Wife
1985
- Girls On Top as Yvonne
1982
- The Comic Strip Presents... as Pauline Sneak
- The Young Ones as Vyvyan's Mum
- Scrubbers as Crow
- Britannia Hospital as Clarissa
1980
1967
- Ulysses as Prostitute
- Far from the Madding Crowd as Mrs. Tall