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