Pauline Melville

ActingBorn: January 1, 1948in Guyana

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

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

Brighton Rock

Bottom Mindless Violence

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

Shadowlands

Home Away from Home

Utz

The House of Bernarda Alba

2Point4 Children

Spender

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Red Dwarf

Rat in the Skull

Mona Lisa

Girls On Top

The Young Ones

The Young Ones

The Comic Strip Presents...

Scrubbers

Britannia Hospital

The Long Good Friday

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Far from the Madding Crowd

Ulysses