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
Far from the Madding Crowd
(Mrs. Tall)
Home Away from Home
(Neighbour)
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
(Self)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
(Mrs Scratchit)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
(Maisie Kemp)
Mona Lisa
(George's Wife)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
(Sylvia Wallace)
Brighton Rock
(Mother Superior)
Scrubbers
(Crow)
The House of Bernarda Alba
(Prudencia)
The Long Good Friday
(Dora)
Shadowlands
(Committee Chairwoman)
Utz
(Curator)
Ulysses
(Prostitute)
Britannia Hospital
(Clarissa)
Rat in the Skull
(IRA Woman)
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
(Pauline Sneak)
Girls On Top
(Yvonne)
The Young Ones
(Vyvyan's Mum)
The Young Ones
(Woman on Bus)
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Spender
(Judge)
2Point4 Children
(Babs)
Red Dwarf
(Barmaid)
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
The Comic Strip Presents...
(Pauline Sneak)
Blackadder
(Mrs Scratchit)