Pauline Melville
Acting
January 1, 1948
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
Movies
Shadowlands
1993
Mona Lisa
1986
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
Scrubbers
1982
Ulysses
1967
Utz
1992
The Long Good Friday
1980
Britannia Hospital
1982
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
Brighton Rock
2010
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
Home Away from Home
1993
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
