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
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Acting History
2014
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule as Self
2010Brighton Rock as Mother Superior
2004Bottom Mindless Violence as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Maisie Kemp
1993Shadowlands as Committee Chairwoman
1993Home Away from Home as Neighbour
1992Utz as Curator
1991The House of Bernarda Alba as Prudencia
19912Point4 Children as Babs
1991Spender as Judge
1989How to Get Ahead in Advertising as Sylvia Wallace
1988Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Mrs Scratchit
1988Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988Didn't You Kill My Brother? as Pauline Sneak
1988Red Dwarf as Barmaid
1987Rat in the Skull as IRA Woman
1986Mona Lisa as George's Wife
1985Girls On Top as Yvonne
1982The Young Ones as Vyvyan's Mum
1982The Young Ones as Woman on Bus
1982The Comic Strip Presents... as Pauline Sneak
1982Scrubbers as Crow
1982Britannia Hospital as Clarissa
1980The Long Good Friday as Dora
1980Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1967Far from the Madding Crowd as Mrs. Tall
1967Ulysses as Prostitute