[1] She started her TV career as a dancer in 1988 on the musical film It Couldn't Happen Here, starring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys.
In 1993, she made a guest appearance as school secretary Janet Clark in the Press Gang episode "Head and Heart."
[1] She appeared in an episode of Minder, Opportunity Knocks and Bruises, as Amanda, a nurse and Ray Daley's latest girlfriend.
[2] Roles has subsequently taken over from Oliver Crocker as the presenter of The Bill Podcast, interviewing her co-stars Beth Cordingly, Raji James, Jane Wall, Pal Aron, Brian Bovell and former executive producer Paul Marquess.
[3] In 2023, Roles was cast as Abigail Wesley in the fiction podcast Letter from Helvetica, written by and co-starring Andrew Mackintosh, the pair having first worked together on two episodes of The Bill.