Melanie Kilburn
Sarah Melanie Jean Kilburn is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Laura Bryant in the ITV police drama series The Bill. She also played the part of Sandra Conway, wife of CI Derek Conway in earlier episodes of The Bill. Her career began in 1983 when she starred as Maureen in The Company Car. She was in an episode of Casualty in 1990 (series 5). She played Eve Elliott in Coronation Street in 2001.
Kilburn rose to prominence as Jill in three series of the BBC's Making Out, and as Carol Anderson in Soldier Soldier.
Kilburn also starred as Sandra in Where the Heart Is throughout 1999, and played the regular role of Liz in Peak Practice during the series which aired in 2000.
In 2017, she starred as in God's own Country, alongside Josh O'Connor and Ian Hart. In 2019, Kilburn started in an episode of Brassic.[2] In 2020, she started in the reboot of All Creatures Great and Small.
From 2017 to 2018, and again since 2022, Kilburn has appeared as Reverend Irene Mills in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2021, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Mavis Gregg.
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Films (13)

Starve Acre
2024 · Mrs. Forde

The Singing Club
2020 · Kathleen

Mother's Day
2018 · Margret Seabrook

Seule la terre
2017 · Gloria

Slapper
2008 · Mary

Carla
2003 · Mrs. Carter

Stone, Scissors, Paper
1997 · Mary
April Fool's Day
1997 · Carol
The World of Eddie Weary
1990 · Mrs Hebdon

Vroom
1988 · Kate

1914 All Out
1987 · Hilda Fairbrother

Frankie and Johnnie
1986 · Reporter at 'Chronicle'

The Little Drummer Girl
1984 · Heloise
Séries (25)

The Long Shadow
2023 · Auntie Win

Cold Case Killers
2021 · Narrator (Voice)

Allo Allo! Brits in France
2021 · Self - Narrator (voice)

James Herriot, chroniques d'un jeune vétérinaire
2020 · Sylvie Handshaw

Brassic
2019 · Brenda

The Musketeers
2014 · Audrey

Breathless
2013 · Mrs. Johnstone

WPC 56
2013 · Lydia Taylor

Padre Brown, detective
2013 · Alice Murphy

Les Enquêtes de Vera
2011 · Susan Monkford

Moving On
2009 · June

Inspecteur Lewis
2007 · Pauline Turrill

Shameless
2004 · Inspector Kitty Froggatt

Where the Heart Is
1997 · Sandra Harrison

Inspecteur Barnaby
1997 · Yvonne Flack

The Wimbledon Poisoner
1994 · Edwina Sprott

(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
1994 · Estate Agent Pippa

Peak Practice
1993 · Irene Brodie, Liz Pullen

Heartbeat
1992 · Rosie Tinniswood

Soldier Soldier
1991 · Carol Anderson

Chancer
1990 · Angela

Making Out
1989

Casualty
1986 · Mrs. Hearn

EastEnders
1985 · Reverend Irene Mills

Screen Two
1985 · Mary
