Cast & creator
Pauline Melville
Best known for Red Dwarf, The Comic Strip Presents..., The Comic Strip Presents...
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
19
film credits
10
television credits
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1967–2014 · acting roles
7.0
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (29)
Showing 29 of 29 credits
Red Dwarf
Barmaid
1988
The Comic Strip Presents...
Pauline Sneak
1982The Comic Strip Presents...
Writer
1982
The Young Ones
Vyvyan's Mum
1982The Young Ones
Woman on Bus
1982
2Point4 Children
Babs
1991
Spender
Judge
1991
The Long Good Friday
Dora
1980
Girls On Top
Yvonne
1985
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
Shadowlands
Committee Chairwoman
1993
Mona Lisa
George's Wife
1986
Far from the Madding Crowd
Mrs. Tall
1967
Britannia Hospital
Clarissa
1982
Brighton Rock
Mother Superior
2010
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Mrs Scratchit
1988
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Sylvia Wallace
1989
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980Rat in the Skull
IRA Woman
1987
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Self
2014
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Maisie Kemp
2000
Ulysses
Prostitute
1967
The House of Bernarda Alba
Prudencia
1991
Home Away from Home
Neighbour
1993
Scrubbers
Crow
1982
Bottom Mindless Violence
Mrs. Basterd (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Pauline Sneak
1988Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Writer
1988
Utz
Curator
1992