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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Starve Acre as Mrs. Forde
- 2023 · The Long Shadow as Auntie Win
- 2021 · Cold Case Killers as Narrator (Voice)
- 2021 · Allo Allo! Brits in France as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · All Creatures Great & Small as Sylvie Handshaw
- 2020 · Military Wives as Kathleen
- 2019 · Brassic as Brenda
- 2018 · Mother's Day as Margret Seabrook
- 2017 · God's Own Country as Gloria
- 2014 · The Musketeers as Audrey
- 2013 · Breathless as Mrs. Johnstone
- 2013 · WPC 56 as Lydia Taylor
- 2013 · Father Brown as Alice Murphy
- 2011 · Vera as Susan Monkford
- 2009 · Moving On as June
- 2008 · Slapper as Mary
- 2003 · Carla as Mrs. Carter
- 1997 · Stone, Scissors, Paper as Mary
- 1997 · April Fool's Day as Carol
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Yvonne Flack
- 1994 · The Wimbledon Poisoner as Edwina Sprott
- 1994 · (All Quiet on the) Preston Front as Estate Agent Pippa
- 1993 · Peak Practice as Irene Brodie
- 1993 · Peak Practice as Liz Pullen
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Rosie Tinniswood
- 1991 · Soldier Soldier as Carol Anderson
- 1990 · The World of Eddie Weary as Mrs Hebdon
- 1989 · Making Out as
- 1988 · Vroom as Kate
- 1987 · 1914 All Out as Hilda Fairbrother
- 1986 · Casualty as Mrs. Hearn
- 1985 · EastEnders as Reverend Irene Mills
- 1984 · The Little Drummer Girl as Heloise