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.

Most Known For

Midsomer Murders

as Yvonne Flack

EastEnders

as Reverend Irene Mills

Vera

as Susan Monkford

Father Brown

as Alice Murphy

Casualty

as Mrs. Hearn

All Creatures Great & Small

as Sylvie Handshaw

Heartbeat

as Rosie Tinniswood

Brassic

as Brenda

Shameless

as Inspector Kitty Froggatt

Peak Practice

as Irene Brodie

Peak Practice

as Liz Pullen

The Musketeers

as Audrey

Moving On

as June

Soldier Soldier

as Carol Anderson

The Long Shadow

as Auntie Win

Making Out

Vroom

as Kate

WPC 56

as Lydia Taylor

(All Quiet on the) Preston Front

as Estate Agent Pippa

God's Own Country

as Gloria