Pauline Melville
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1948
- Place of birth
- 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 with Pauline Melville
- The Long Good Friday 1980 · ★ 7.2
- Shadowlands 1993 · ★ 6.9
- Mona Lisa 1986 · ★ 6.9
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising 1989 · ★ 6.3
- Brighton Rock 2010 · ★ 5.7
- Far from the Madding Crowd 1967 · ★ 6.9
- Britannia Hospital 1982 · ★ 6.2
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol 1988 · ★ 7.4
- Scrubbers 1982 · ★ 5.2
- Ulysses 1967 · ★ 5.9
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song 2000 · ★ 5.2
- Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule 2014 · ★ 7.5
- Utz 1992 · ★ 5.8
- Home Away from Home 1993 · ★ 10.0
- Bottom Mindless Violence 2004 · ★ 10.0
- The House of Bernarda Alba 1991
- Rat in the Skull 1987
- Didn't You Kill My Brother? 1988