She has had roles in several miniseries, including Simone de Beauvoir's Babies (1997), Fat Cow Motel (2003), RAN (Remote Area Nurse) (2006) and The Slap (2011).
Brady has had recurring roles as Kelly in the TV sitcom Kath & Kim, Rosie Day in drama series Big Sky (1999), and Janine Ballich in Jack Irish (2016-2021).
She has also had numerous guest roles in television series such as Phoenix (1993), Good Guys Bad Guys (1997), Raw FM (1997), Blue Heelers (1997 & 2003), MDA (2003), City Homicide (2008 & 2009), The Librarians (2009 & 2010), Rush (2010), It' a Date (2014), House Husbands (2015), Safe Home (2023) and Fake (2023) Brady played the character of Annie in 2005 stage production Love by Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius,[2] which won her the Gerda Nicholson Award for an 'Actress with an Emerging Career' at the 2005 Green Room Awards.
The first play she wrote, Status Update (2010), received two Green Room Awards nominations, including 'Best New Writing for the Melbourne Stage', and 'Best Female Performer'.
[4] In 2011, Brady had been working for the Salvation Army as a mobile health, alcohol and drug safety outreach worker on weekends for about ten years, as a secondary source of income.