She has played recurring roles in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and crime drama Scott & Bailey, as well as in the Netflix six-part mockumentary sitcom Hard Cell.
[7] Around the same time, Harding starred in the productions of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2004),[8] Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (2005)[9] and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (2007).
[10] In 2008 she wrote and performed a one-woman show about one of the first actresses on the English stage and a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England, Nell Gwyn.
[12] Her television career began in a 1992 episode of the ITV crime drama Van der Valk, based on Nicolas Freeling's novels about a detective in Amsterdam, played by Barry Foster.
[14][15] In 2007, she briefly appeared opposite Robert Pattinson and Holly Grainger in The Bad Mother's Handbook, the television adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Kate Long.
[17][18][16] For three months in autumn 2020 she appeared in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Dr. Howarth, who treated the dying son of Steve McDonald and Leanne Battersby, and later told the court it would be an act of kindness and compassion to switch off his life support.