[1] Breakthrough roles came in British television, including Carol in The Sensorites, a six-episode adventure in the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.
[5] Rodgers first lived in New Zealand from 1973, appearing in the soap opera Close to Home and a successful goldmining drama, Hunter's Gold.
There, she appeared in television programmes The Sullivans, over 200 episodes of Sons and Daughters (as Patricia Hamilton's sister, Margaret Dunne) and the 1985 Australian miniseries Anzacs (as Lady Thea Barrington), as well as nine episodes of Prisoner in 1983 as character Zara Moonbeam, an imprisoned medium who claimed to have clairvoyant powers.
[6] After relocating back to New Zealand, her work included medical soap Shortland Street and presenting duties on a light entertainment and advertorial program called Good Morning.
Her stage work has included the one-woman play Shirley Valentine,[8] By Degrees written by Roger Hall, and Three Tall Women by Edward Albee.