She had a regular role as Lady Laird Sam Hagan in the Scottish soap Take the High Road for STV from 1991 to 1999.

In 1976, she played Wendy Darling in a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan starring Mia Farrow and Danny Kaye on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame.

On stage, she made many appearances in the West End and the regions including playing Wendy Darling in J.M.

[3] McRoberts died on 17 July 2013 at Fulham Broadway tube station, West London, after being hit by a District line train.

[3][5] At an inquest held in Fulham in October 2013 coroner Elizabeth Pygot returned a verdict of suicide and said: "A pathologist and toxicology results found that she had no alcohol, drugs or medication in her system when she died.