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

Mrs. Tall

Far from the Madding Crowd

Neighbour

Home Away from Home

Self

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

Mrs Scratchit

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Maisie Kemp

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

George's Wife

Mona Lisa

Sylvia Wallace

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Mother Superior

Brighton Rock

Crow

Scrubbers

Prudencia

The House of Bernarda Alba

Dora

The Long Good Friday

Clarissa

Britannia Hospital

Prostitute

Ulysses

Committee Chairwoman

Shadowlands

Curator

Utz

IRA Woman

Rat in the Skull

Pauline Sneak

Didn't You Kill My Brother?