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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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Line of Duty
  • Midsomer Murders
  • Shameless
  • Brassic
  • Coronation Street
  • Heartbeat
  • Peak Practice
  • Jimmy McGovern's Moving On
  • Vroom

Known For

  • God's Own Country
  • Starve Acre
  • Hale & Pace
  • Breathless
  • Vroom
  • Mother's Day
  • Cold Case Killers

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
Brassic (TV Series) · as Brenda
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
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
Shameless (TV Series) · as Inspector Kitty Froggatt
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
Heartbeat (TV Series) · as Rosie Tinniswood
1991
Soldier Soldier (TV Series) · as Carol Anderson
1990
Chancer (TV Series) · as Angela
1990
Vroom · as Kate
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
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

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