Career
She is known for playing the role of Doctor of Science Claire Stanton in the long running Independent Television drama The Bill. She has also appeared in several other television programmes, including A Touch of Frost and Kingdom. Salaman has recently moved into writing: she has written a play for The National Theatre and a screenplay for Granada Television.
She has also written her first novel, Shame on You.
She recalled her family upbringing as part of an unnamed religious cult in the Guardian newspaper on 25 July 2009. The Guardian bookshop states that the novel is based on her own experiences growing up at the secretive Street James School of The School of Economic Science.