Pauline Melville
ActingBiography
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
Movies
(18 total)
The Long Good Friday
as Dora
Shadowlands
as Committee Chairwoman
Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Mrs. Tall
Britannia Hospital
as Clarissa
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
Scrubbers
as Crow
Ulysses
as Prostitute
Utz
as Curator
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
Home Away from Home
as Neighbour
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak
TV Shows
(9 total)
Red Dwarf
as Barmaid
The Young Ones
as Vyvyan's Mum
The Young Ones
as Woman on Bus
2Point4 Children
as Babs
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Pauline Sneak
Girls On Top
as Yvonne
Spender
as Judge
