
Acting
Community Rating
6.4
TMDB estimate
Born
January 1, 1948 (age 78)
Born in
Guyana
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

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Self
2014

Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
2010

Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Maisie Kemp
2000

Shadowlands
as Committee Chairwoman
1993

Home Away from Home
as Neighbour
1993

Utz
as Curator
1992

The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
1991

2Point4 Children
as Babs
1991

Spender
as Judge
1991

How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
1989

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
1988

Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988

Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak, Writer
1988

Red Dwarf
as Barmaid
1988
Rat in the Skull
as IRA Woman
1987

Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
1986

Girls On Top
as Yvonne
1985

The Young Ones
as Vyvyan's Mum
1982

The Comic Strip Presents...
as Pauline Sneak, Writer
1982