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