
Pauline Melville
Acting
15
Movies
9
TV Shows
24
Credits
About
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

Pauline Melville
Acting
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

Red Dwarf

The Comic Strip Presents...

The Young Ones

The Young Ones

2Point4 Children

The Long Good Friday

Girls On Top

Spender

Mona Lisa

Shadowlands

Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Brighton Rock

Far from the Madding Crowd

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Britannia Hospital

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Scrubbers

Ulysses

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

Utz

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