Shortly after in 1968 she was cast in her first television role as an art student in a play called The Life Class for Theatre 625, in the same year appearing in the series B-And-B with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly for the BBC.
[7] Charkham played the unmarriageable Jewish daughter Romaine Swartz in the play Enter Solly Gold by Bernard Kops at the Mermaid Theatre in 1970 and in 1971 she appeared as the Dean's daughter in Doctor at Large and was a Bar mitzvah guest in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)[8] followed by appearances in Everybody Say Cheese (1971) – the latter another Play for Today and directed by Alan Clarke followed by The Fenn Street Gang (1972) among others before leaving acting to become a Casting Director for various television series including The Professionals, moving on to casting for films such as Quadrophenia (1979), Scum (1979), the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire (1981) and Supergirl (1984).
[1][10] On leaving Central Television in 1988 Charkham joined Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran in their independent production company ALOMO as managing director.
[7] For the BBC she produced Crown Prosecutor and the children's series No Sweat as well as One Foot in the Grave – winning a British Comedy Award and being nominated for a BAFTA (1998), both for the latter.
Harold in the low-budget comedy horror film I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)[12] and had a cameo role opposite Michael Elphick in the series Harry.