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Melanie Kilburn
ActorBorn January 1, 1956 (69 years)
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.
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
| 2023 | Starve Acre · as Mrs. Forde |
| 2023 | The Long Shadow (TV Series) · as Auntie Win |
| 2021 | Cold Case Killers (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2021 | The Madame Blanc Mysteries (TV Series) · as Joanna |
| 2020 | The Emily Atack Show (TV Series) · as Various |
| 2020 | All Creatures Great & Small (2020) (TV Series) · as Sylvie Handshaw |
| 2019 | Military Wives · as Kathleen |
| 2019 | Cold Call (TV Series) · as Sophie Clarke |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | The Best of EastEnders · as Reverend Irene Mills |
| 2018 | Mother's Day · as Margret Seabrook |
| 2017 | God's Own Country · as Gloria |
| 2017 | Broken (TV Series) · as Barbara Powell |
| 2014 | Grantchester (TV Series) · as Nanna Carson |
| 2014 | The Musketeers (TV Series) · as Audrey |
| 2013 | One Chance · as Mrs. Evans |
| 2013 | Breathless (TV Series) · as Mrs. Johnstone |
| 2013 | WPC 56 (TV Series) · as Lydia Taylor |
| 2013 | Father Brown (2013) (TV Series) · as Alice Murphy |
| 2012 | Line of Duty (TV Series) · as Tammy |
| 2011 | Vera (TV Series) · as Susan Monkford |
| 2010 | DCI Banks (TV Series) · as Juliet Doyle |
| 2009 | Jimmy McGovern's Moving On (TV Series) · as June |
| 2009 | All the Small Things (TV Series) · as Olive Halsall |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK (TV Series) · as Julie Perkins |
| 2007 | Holby Blue (TV Series) · as Carol Slater |
| 2006 | Lewis (TV Series) · as Pauline Turrill |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | Carla · as Mrs. Carter |
| 2000 | Down to Earth (TV Series) · as Lyn Cooper |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Carol Durlow |
| 2000 | Clocking Off (TV Series) · as Vera Eastwood |
| 1999 | Always And Everyone (TV Series) · as Moira Lucas |
| 1999 | Holby City (TV Series) · as Elaine Martin |
| 1998 | Maisie Raine (TV Series) · as Muriel Sands |
| 1997 | Where the Heart Is (TV Series) · as Sandra Harrison |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Yvonne Flack |
| 1996 | Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Di Mel Granger |
| 1994 | The Wimbledon Poisoner (TV Series) · as Edwina Sprott |
| 1994 | Moving Story (TV Series) · as Charlotte |
| 1994 | All Quiet on the Preston Front (TV Series) · as Estate Agent Pippa |
| 1993 | Jo Brand Through the Cakehole (TV Series) · as Various Characters |
| 1993 | Peak Practice (TV Series) · as Liz Pullen |
| 1992 | |
| 1991 | Soldier Soldier (TV Series) · as Carol Anderson |
| 1990 | Chancer (TV Series) · as Angela |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | Making Out (TV Series) |
| 1987 | 1914 All Out · as Hilda Fairbrother |
| 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) · as Jackie Whittaker |
| 1986 | Hale & Pace (TV Series) · as Customer |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hearn |
| 1985 | EastEnders (TV Series) · as Reverend Irene Mills |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Mary |
| 1984 | The Little Drummer Girl · as Heloise |
| 1984 | The Bill (TV Series) · as Pc Laura Bryant |
| 1980 | Juliet Bravo (TV Series) · as Casualty Sister |
| 1960 | Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Eve Elliott |