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 Young Ones
The Young Ones
The Comic Strip Presents...
2Point4 Children
Spender
The Long Good Friday
Girls On Top
All Movies (18)
- Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule2014 · as Self
- Brighton Rock2010 · as Mother Superior
- Bottom Mindless Violence2004 · as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song2000 · as Maisie Kemp
- Shadowlands1993 · as Committee Chairwoman
- Home Away from Home1993 · as Neighbour
- Utz1992 · as Curator
- The House of Bernarda Alba1991 · as Prudencia
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising1989 · as Sylvia Wallace
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol1988 · as Mrs Scratchit
- Didn't You Kill My Brother?1988 · as Pauline Sneak
- Rat in the Skull1987 · as IRA Woman
- Mona Lisa1986 · as George's Wife
- Scrubbers1982 · as Crow
- Britannia Hospital1982 · as Clarissa
- The Long Good Friday1980 · as Dora
- Far from the Madding Crowd1967 · as Mrs. Tall
- Ulysses1967 · as Prostitute
All TV Shows (9)
- 2Point4 Children1991 · as Babs
- Spender1991 · as Judge
- Alexei Sayle's Stuff1988
- Red Dwarf1988 · as Barmaid
- Girls On Top1985 · as Yvonne
- The Young Ones1982 · as Vyvyan's Mum
- The Young Ones1982 · as Woman on Bus
- The Comic Strip Presents...1982 · as Pauline Sneak
- Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights1980