Sarah Melanie Jean Kilburn is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Laura Bryant in the ITV police drama series The Bill.

[1] Kilburn also starred as Sandra in Where the Heart Is throughout 1999,[1] and played the regular role of Liz in Peak Practice during the series which aired in 2000.

[1] In 2017, she starred as in God's own Country, alongside Josh O'Connor and Ian Hart.

[2] From 2017 to 2018, and again since 2022, Kilburn has appeared as Reverend Irene Mills in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

[3] In 2021, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Mavis Gregg.