She guest starred on several television films and series during the 1970s and early 1980s, best remembered as playing Linda Golman in the cult soap opera Prisoner, but also having appeared in the 1980 television miniseries The Last Outlaw and the 1986 war film Death of a Soldier.
Charleston got her start working as a choreographer for Countdown and The Don Lane Show between 1974–75 and made her television acting debut as a guest star on the police drama Cop Shop in 1977.
The next year, she was cast college political activist Linda Golman in the soap opera Prisoner.
The kidnapping fails resulting in Ricki Lee being killed by the police and Linda Golman being sent to prison where she eventually commits suicide.
She was also the choreographer for director Alan Burrows' stage production of Cabaret with the Victoria-based CLOC Musical Theatre Company that same year.