Acting credits
26
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Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Pauline Melville
Acting
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Movies: 18Series: 8Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 31951
IMDb ID: nm0578501
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1948
Age: 78
Place of birth: Guyana
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1967 - 2014
Years active: 48
Average TMDB rating: 6.77
Wikidata: Q3372750
Other jobs
Writer (2)
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
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Pauline Melville.
7.5
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Self
2014 Movie
5.7
Brighton Rock
as Mother Superior
2010 Movie
7.5
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004 Movie
5.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Maisie Kemp
2000 Movie
6.9
Shadowlands
as Committee Chairwoman
1993 Movie
Home Away from Home
as Neighbour
1993 Movie
5.4
Utz
as Curator
1992 Movie
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Prudencia
1991 Movie
6.2
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Sylvia Wallace
1989 Movie
7.6
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Mrs Scratchit
1988 Movie
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
as Pauline Sneak
1988 Movie
Rat in the Skull
as IRA Woman
1987 Movie
6.9
Mona Lisa
as George's Wife
1986 Movie
5.0
Scrubbers
as Crow
1982 Movie
6.2
Britannia Hospital
as Clarissa
1982 Movie
7.2
The Long Good Friday
as Dora
1980 Movie
6.8
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Mrs. Tall
1967 Movie
5.8
Ulysses
as Prostitute
1967 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Pauline Melville.
7.2
2Point4 Children
as Babs • 1 eps
1991 Series
7.0
Spender
as Judge • 1 eps
1991 Series
6.5
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1 eps
1988 Series
8.1
Red Dwarf
as Barmaid • 1 eps
1988 Series
4.3
Girls On Top
as Yvonne • 3 eps
1985 Series
7.9
The Young Ones
as Vyvyan's Mum • 2 eps
1982 Series
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Pauline Sneak • 1 eps
1982 Series
6.0
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
2 eps
1980 Series