Pauline Melville
Acting · 78 years old
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
Red Dwarf
Barmaid
The Young Ones
Vyvyan's Mum
The Young Ones
Woman on Bus
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Mrs Scratchit
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Self
Bottom Mindless Violence
Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Comic Strip Presents...
Pauline Sneak
2Point4 Children
Babs
The Long Good Friday
Dora
Spender
Judge
Shadowlands
Committee Chairwoman
Mona Lisa
George's Wife
Far from the Madding Crowd
Mrs. Tall
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Britannia Hospital
Clarissa
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Sylvia Wallace
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Ulysses
Prostitute
Brighton Rock
Mother Superior
Utz
Curator
