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
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Films (18)
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014 · Self
Brighton Rock
2010 · Mother Superior
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000 · Maisie Kemp
Les Ombres du cœur
1993 · Committee Chairwoman
Home Away from Home
1993 · Neighbour
Utz
1992 · Curator
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991 · Prudencia
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989 · Sylvia Wallace
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988 · Mrs Scratchit
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988 · Pauline Sneak, Writer
Rat in the Skull
1987 · IRA Woman
Mona Lisa
1986 · George's Wife
Scrubbers
1982 · Crow
Britannia Hospital
1982 · Clarissa
The Long Good Friday
1980 · Dora
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967 · Mrs. Tall
Ulysses
1967 · Prostitute
