Melanie Kilburn
Actor
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.
Filmography
Military Wives
as Kathleen 2020
Starve Acre
as Mrs. Forde 2024
The Little Drummer Girl
as Heloise 1984
Vroom
as Kate 1988
Mother's Day
as Margret Seabrook 2018
Slapper
as Mary 2008
Carla
as Mrs. Carter 2003
1914 All Out
as Hilda Fairbrother 1987
April Fool's Day
as Carol 1997
Stone, Scissors, Paper
as Mary 1997
The World of Eddie Weary
as Mrs Hebdon 1990