Acting credits
32
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Melanie Kilburn
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.6
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Movies: 11Series: 21
TMDB ID: 1250099
IMDb ID: nm0452950
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1956
Age: 70
Place of birth: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1984 - 2024
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 6.95
Wikidata: Q6811300
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Melanie Kilburn.
6.0
Starve Acre
as Mrs. Forde
2024 Movie
6.6
Military Wives
as Kathleen
2020 Movie
7.6
Mother's Day
as Margret Seabrook
2018 Movie
7.8
God's Own Country
as Gloria
2017 Movie
3.5
Slapper
as Mary
2008 Movie
3.0
Carla
as Mrs. Carter
2003 Movie
Stone, Scissors, Paper
as Mary
1997 Movie
6.1
Vroom
as Kate
1988 Movie
7.0
1914 All Out
as Hilda Fairbrother
1987 Movie
Frankie and Johnnie
as Reporter at 'Chronicle'
1986 Movie
5.4
The Little Drummer Girl
as Heloise
1984 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Melanie Kilburn.
7.5
The Long Shadow
as Auntie Win • 1 eps
2023 Series
7.0
Cold Case Killers
as Narrator (Voice) • 6 eps
2021 Series
Allo Allo! Brits in France
as Self - Narrator • 6 eps
2021 Series
8.1
All Creatures Great & Small
as Sylvie Handshaw • 1 eps
2020 Series
8.4
Brassic
as Brenda • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.0
The Musketeers
as Audrey • 1 eps
2014 Series
6.8
Breathless
as Mrs. Johnstone • 6 eps
2013 Series
5.5
WPC 56
as Lydia Taylor • 3 eps
2013 Series
7.6
Father Brown
as Alice Murphy • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.4
Vera
as Susan Monkford • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.1
Moving On
as June • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.6
Shameless
as Inspector Kitty Froggatt • 1 eps
2004 Series
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Yvonne Flack • 1 eps
1997 Series
2.7
The Wimbledon Poisoner
as Edwina Sprott • 2 eps
1994 Series
5.3
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
as Estate Agent Pippa • 1 eps
1994 Series
6.1
Peak Practice
as Irene Brodie • 1 eps
1993 Series
7.1
Heartbeat
as Rosie Tinniswood • 2 eps
1992 Series
6.6
Soldier Soldier
as Carol Anderson • 7 eps
1991 Series
5.8
Making Out
24 eps
1989 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Mrs. Hearn • 1 eps
1986 Series
4.1
EastEnders
as Reverend Irene Mills • 1 eps
1985 Series