[3] She also appeared in musicals such as Man of La Mancha, and a chamber opera, The Garden, by John and Zinnie Harris.

[1] They became engaged in 2017, and intended to marry in 2019, but Knowles died from a heart attack on 17 October 2018, at her home in Glasgow.

[1] In 2019, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland established the Pauline Knowles Scholarship Fund in her honour, to support Scottish or Scottish-based BA acting students at the start of their careers.

[5] In 2016, Knowles won a Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland, as Best Female Performance in the role of Clytemnestra, in This Restless House, a play by Zinnie Harris based on the Oresteia.

[2] She gained the Best Performer award at the Adelaide festival in Australia after appearing in "Fleeto and Wee Andy".