Melanie Kilburn
Biography
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.
Movie Appearances
Slapper
as Mary
2008
Carla
as Mrs. Carter
2003
Stone, Scissors, Paper
as Mary
1997
1914 All Out
as Hilda Fairbrother
1987
God's Own Country
as Gloria
2017
April Fool's Day
as Carol
1997
Mother's Day
as Margret Seabrook
2018
The World of Eddie Weary
as Mrs Hebdon
1990
The Little Drummer Girl
as Heloise
1984
Military Wives
as Kathleen
2020
Vroom
as Kate
1988
Starve Acre
as Mrs. Forde
2024
Frankie and Johnnie
as Reporter at 'Chronicle'
1986
TV Appearances
WPC 56
as Lydia Taylor
2013
Peak Practice
as Irene Brodie
1993
Moving On
as June
2009
Allo Allo! Brits in France
as Self - Narrator
2021
Cold Case Killers
as Narrator (Voice)
2021
Breathless
as Mrs. Johnstone
2013
Father Brown
as Alice Murphy
2013
Making Out
1989
Peak Practice
as Liz Pullen
1993
Casualty
as Mrs. Hearn
1986
EastEnders
as Reverend Irene Mills
1985
Heartbeat
as Rosie Tinniswood
1992