Pauline Melville
Acting Born Jan 1, 1948 Guyana 24 credits
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
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Full filmography
- Red Dwarf (1988) as Barmaid
- The Young Ones (1982) as Vyvyan's Mum
- The Young Ones (1982) as Woman on Bus
- The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) as Pauline Sneak
- 2Point4 Children (1991) as Babs
- Spender (1991) as Judge
- The Long Good Friday (1980) as Dora
- Girls On Top (1985) as Yvonne
- Shadowlands (1993) as Committee Chairwoman
- Mona Lisa (1986) as George's Wife
- Alexei Sayle's Stuff (1988)
- Brighton Rock (2010) as Mother Superior
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) as Mrs. Tall
- Ulysses (1967) as Prostitute
- Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights (1980)
- Britannia Hospital (1982) as Clarissa
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) as Sylvia Wallace
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) as Mrs Scratchit
- Utz (1992) as Curator
- Scrubbers (1982) as Crow
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song (2000) as Maisie Kemp
- Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule (2014) as Self
- Rat in the Skull (1987) as IRA Woman
- Bottom Mindless Violence (2004) as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)