Cast
Pauline Melville
Acting
Cast
Pauline Melville
Known for
Acting
Born
1948-01-01
From
Guyana
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
★7.2
MOVIE1980
The Long Good Friday
as Dora
★6.9
MOVIE1986
Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
★6.9
MOVIE1993
Shadowlands
as Committee Chairwoman
★5.2
MOVIE2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Maisie Kemp
★6.9
MOVIE1967
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Mrs. Tall
★5.7
MOVIE2010
Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
★6.3
MOVIE1982
Britannia Hospital
as Clarissa
★6.3
MOVIE1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
★7.6
MOVIE1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
★5.9
MOVIE1967
Ulysses
as Prostitute
MOVIE1988
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak
MOVIE1987
Rat in the Skull
as IRA Woman
★5.8
MOVIE1992
Utz
as Curator
MOVIE1991
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
★5.2
MOVIE1982
Scrubbers
as Crow
★10.0
MOVIE2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE2014
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1993
Home Away from Home
as Neighbour