Pauline Melville
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1948-01-01 (76 years old)
Place of Birth Guyana
Pauline Melville
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
Known For
Actor
as Self
as Mother Superior
as Maisie Kemp
as Committee Chairwoman
as Neighbour
as Curator
as Prudencia
as Babs
as Judge
as Sylvia Wallace
as Mrs Scratchit
as Pauline Sneak
as Barmaid
as IRA Woman
as George's Wife
as Yvonne
as Mrs Scratchit
as Crow
as Clarissa
as Vyvyan's Mum
as Woman on Bus
as Pauline Sneak
as Dora
as Mrs. Tall
as Prostitute
Writer
as Writer
as Writer