Pauline Devaney

Who is Pauline Devaney?

Pauline Devaney is a British actress, writer and artist, best known for her television writing in partnership with her husband Edwin Apps.

Devaney trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She and Apps both began their careers as actors, but branched into screenwriting while between jobs, originally writing under the name "John Wraith", with All Gas and Gaiters, the series that brought Derek Nimmo into the public eye. A later attempt to write for Nimmo in 1974 proved unsuccessful.

Devaney appeared in small parts on television during the 1960s, notably as a recurring character in the hospital drama Emergency - Ward 10. With Edwin Apps, she appeared in two comedy series by N. F. Simpson: Three Rousing Tinkles and Four Tall Tinkles. During the 1980s she wrote a one-woman stage play, To Marie with Love, based on the life of Marie Stopes, which she took to the Edinburgh Festival in 1985.

Devaney began studying art in 1999. After winning the Winchester Art Competition in 2001, she took up art as a full-time career, and now divides her time between Lewes, Sussex, and the Languedoc.