Pauline Melville
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
26 acting credits
Acting · 26
Red Dwarf
1988
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
The Young Ones
1982
2Point4 Children
1991
Girls On Top
1985
Spender
1991
The Long Good Friday
1980
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
Mona Lisa
1986
Shadowlands
1993
Brighton Rock
2010
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989
Britannia Hospital
1982
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Scrubbers
1982
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
Utz
1992
Ulysses
1967
Rat in the Skull
1987
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
Home Away from Home
1993