Acting
Pauline Melville
EN cinema · 18 credits
Born
1 January 1948 (age 78)
Birthplace
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
Known for
Filmography
Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
Home Away from Home
as Neighbour
Shadowlands
as Committee Chairwoman
Utz
as Curator
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak, Writer
Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
Scrubbers
as Crow
Britannia Hospital
as Clarissa
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Mrs. Tall
Ulysses
as Prostitute