Pauline Melville

Personal Info

Birthday

January 1, 1948

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Guyana

Pauline Melville

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

Known For

Red Dwarf

The Comic Strip Presents...

The Young Ones

2Point4 Children

Spender

Girls On Top

The Long Good Friday

Mona Lisa

Filmography

2014
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Self
2010
Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
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
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak
1987
Rat in the Skull
as IRA Woman
1986
Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
1982
Scrubbers
as Crow
Britannia Hospital
as Clarissa
1980
The Long Good Friday
as Dora
1967
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Mrs. Tall
Ulysses
as Prostitute