Career
Rodgers breakthrough roles in British television included an adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit and Carol in The Sensorites, a six-episode adventure from British Broadcasting Corporation science-fiction series Doctor Who. She also made guest appearances in The Saint and The Avengers. Rodgers first lived in New Zealand from 1973, appearing in soap opera Close to Home and successful goldmining drama Hunter"s Gold (retitled Scott Hunter in some territories).
Between 1978 and the mid-1980s she lived in Australia.
Her Prisoner character, Zara Moonbeam, a medium who claimed to have clairvoyant powers, was forced by Nola McKenzie (Carole Skinner) into impersonating Bea Smith"s (Val Lehman) deceased daughter Debbie. Hopes that Bea would thus commit suicide, thinking she had witnessed her daughter"s ghost, did not go to plan, but Rodgers" character made it out of prison alive.
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. Rodger"s best-known role in New Zealand is probably television series Gloss.
She starred in Gloss for three seasons, from 1987 to 1990, playing bossy magazine editor Maxine Redfern.
The series was about a fictional publishing empire run by the Redfern family
Later Rodgers played Australian wife to New Zealand comedy legend Billy T James on the final, sitcom version of "The Billy T James Show" (1990). Her stage work has included one-woman play Shirley Valentine, By Degrees written by Roger Hall and Three Tall Women by Edward Albee.
