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Pauline Melville is a Guyanese-born writer and actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England. Among awards she has received for her writing are the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Salman Rushdie has said: "I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years."
Born
Thursday, 01 January 1948
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Margaret Thatcher, l'inoxydable | Self | 2023 |
| Brighton Rock | Mother Superior | 2011 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | Maisie Kemp | 2000 |
| Shadowlands | Committee Chairwoman | 1993 |
| Home Away from Home | Neighbour | 1993 |
| Ghostwriter | Wise Rita | 1992 |
| Utz | Curator | 1992 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Maisie Kemp | 1992 |
| The House of Bernarda Alba | Prudencia | 1991 |
| 2point4 Children | Babs | 1991 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Margaret Thatcher, l'inoxydable | Self | 2023 |
| Brighton Rock | Mother Superior | 2011 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | Maisie Kemp | 2000 |
| Shadowlands | Committee Chairwoman | 1993 |
| Home Away from Home | Neighbour | 1993 |
| Ghostwriter | Wise Rita | 1992 |
| Utz | Curator | 1992 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Maisie Kemp | 1992 |
| The House of Bernarda Alba | Prudencia | 1991 |
| 2point4 Children | Babs | 1991 |
| Spender | Judge | 1991 |
| How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Mrs Wallace / Sylvia Wallace | 1989 |
| Desmond's | Mrs. Martin | 1989 |
| Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Mrs Scratchit | 1988 |
| Red Dwarf | Barmaid | 1988 |
| Rat in the Skull | IRA Woman | 1987 |
| Mona Lisa | George's Wife | 1986 |
| Girls on Top | Yvonne | 1985 |
| White City | 1985 | |
| The Brief | Mrs. Austin | 1984 |
| Alas Smith & Jones | 1984 | |
| The Young Ones | Vyvyan's Mum / Woman on Bus | 1982 |
| The Comic Strip Presents | Pauline Sneak | 1982 |
| Scrubbers | Crow | 1982 |
| Britannia Hospital | Clarissa: The Radicals / Clarissa | 1982 |
| The Long Good Friday | Dora | 1981 |
| Ulysses | Prostitute | 1967 |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Mrs. Tall | 1967 |
