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
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Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
2010
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Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Maisie Kemp
2000
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Shadowlands
as Committee Chairwoman
1993
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Home Away from Home
as Neighbour
1993
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Utz
as Curator
1992
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The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
1991
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2Point4 Children
as Babs
1991
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Spender
as Judge
1991
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
1989
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
1988
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Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak, Writer
1988
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Red Dwarf
as Barmaid
1988
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Rat in the Skull
as IRA Woman
1987
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Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
1986
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Girls On Top
as Yvonne
1985
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The Young Ones
as Vyvyan's Mum
1982
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The Comic Strip Presents...
as Pauline Sneak, Writer
1982
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