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