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Pauline Melville

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: Acting

Born: Guyana, 1948-01-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Ulysses	Prostitute	60
2	1967	Far from the Madding Crowd	Mrs. Tall	69
3	1980	The Long Good Friday	Dora	71
4	1982	Britannia Hospital	Clarissa	63
5	1982	Scrubbers	Crow	52
6	1986	Mona Lisa	George's Wife	69
7	1987	Rat in the Skull	IRA Woman	0
8	1988	Didn't You Kill My Brother?	Pauline Sneak	0
9	1988	Blackadder's Christmas Carol	Mrs Scratchit	78
10	1989	How to Get Ahead in Advertising	Sylvia Wallace	63
11	1991	The House of Bernarda Alba	Prudencia	0
12	1992	Utz	Curator	54
13	1993	Home Away from Home	Neighbour	0
14	1993	Shadowlands	Committee Chairwoman	69
15	2000	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song	Maisie Kemp	50
16	2010	Brighton Rock	Mother Superior	57
17	2014	Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule	Self	75

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights		60
2	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Pauline Sneak	74
3	1982	The Young Ones	Vyvyan's Mum	79
4	1982	The Young Ones	Woman on Bus	79
5	1985	Girls On Top	Yvonne	48
6	1988	Red Dwarf	Barmaid	81
7	1988	Alexei Sayle's Stuff		65
8	1991	Spender	Judge	70
9	1991	2Point4 Children	Babs	72