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Career
After appearing in The Bill, Telford appeared as a guest on several other British TV shows before landing her first mini-series as Roe Germaine, one of the passengers in The Last Train. Arguably one of Telford's first recognizable works was on the first season of Channel 4's Teachers (2001) where she played Maggie, a cop and Simon Casey's girlfriend, played by Andrew Lincoln. In the TV movie Men Only, she played Alice, a nurse that was gang-raped by a group of men she had known and flirted with, played by, among others, Stephen Moyer and Martin Freeman. She then played the social worker Christina Leith in BBC's Real Men (2003), a 2-part TV drama that tackled the subject of pedophilia.

Telford played Eva Braun in the 2003 Emmy-nominated Hitler: The Rise of Evil opposite Robert Carlyle. The TV movie was broadcast on CBS with some controversy as some likened the nation’s acceptance of the Bush administration’s preemptive strike on Iraq to the climate of fear that allowed Hitler to prosper. Her screen time was short since the film focused on the events leading up to the Final Solution.

In Agatha Christie's Poirot's Death on the Nile (2004), Telford played Rosalie Otterbourne, one of the passengers on the cruise, alongside Emily Blunt, James Fox, and David Suchet. She played Alison Jackman, a young trainee at the fictional PR firm of "Prentiss McCabe" headed by Stephen Fry in the BBC's Absolute Power (2003-2005), and as trauma doctor Jane Cameron in the  The Golden Hour (2005), a 4-part miniseries from ITV.

She had a small role as Samantha in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), followed by Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) where she played Lily.

Telford appeared as Emily Trefusis in Agatha Christie's Marple's The Sittaford Mystery, produced by jointly by Granada and WGBH-Boston. The show was broadcast in the US in 2006 as part of PBS's Mystery! anthology series and marked her second collaboration with James Fox. She was also in three different movies in the same year -  This Charming Man, The Painted Veil (starring Naomi Watts), and The Truth (starring Elizabeth McGovern). She appeared in an episode of Afterlife (2006) with her former Teachers co-star, Andrew Lincoln, one of the show’s main characters who played an academic skeptical of the paranormal. She worked for the first time with Juliet Stevenson in the 3-part ITV series A Place of Execution as Nicola Curry; the show was broadcast in the US in 2009 as part of PBS's Mystery! anthology. She appeared as Assistant Private Secretary Abigail Thomas in the 8-episode ITV series The Palace. The show was conceived to be an answer to The West Wing but had to undergo several script changes and "ended up a different genre altogether".

Telford appeared in several procedural shows including Law & Order: UK (2009), the second season of Criminal Justice (2009) as Anna Klein, the defence barrister for Maxine Peake’s character Julie, Collision (2009), broadcast in the US under PBS’s Masterpiece Contemporary’’, as the independent tabloid reporter Marianne Swift in two episodes of the The Thick of It (2009), and as Sandra Rampton in Foyle’s War (2010)''. She appeared in Episodes 2 and 3 of the first season of the BBC’s Sherlock(2010) as Sarah, a physician colleague and love interest of Dr. John Watson, played by her Men Only co-star Martin Freeman.

Telford played Freya Carlisle in Lewis (2011) which reunited her with Juliet Stevenson and James Fox, and as Eva Storr in [BBC]]'s Room at the Top (2012) with her Criminal Justice co-star Maxine Peak. She played newly-created character Claire Sutton, a policy adviser, in the 2013 remake of Yes, Prime Minister. . She appeared in the French TV series Jo (2013) and was an ensemble player in the comedy series Love and Marriage (2013) where she played Michelle Paradise.

For her role as Paula, a beleaguered housewife who helps Mal, a blind veteran, find his dog in the film Greyhawk, Telford won a Special Commendation Award at the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival where the film premiered.

She appeared in the Series 17 opening episodes of Silent Witness as DCI Jane de Freitas. Her role as Bella Cross, the daughter of one of the main suspects in the first season of Unforgotten (2015) reunited her with Nicola Walker, her co-star from The Last Train (1999). She played the tragic Clara Haber in the first season of National Geographic's Genius - Einstein (2017). She appeared in other TV series (and PBS staples) like Death in Paradise (2018) as Michelle Devaux, a professional poker player, and Grantchester (2019) as Professor Jean Simms. She played Sarah Bradford, the missing wife of DI David Bradford in the TV series London Kills (2019), produced by Acorn TV and acquired by the BBC for 2020 general release in the UK.

In 2019, she narrated the audiobooks of Jane Fallon's Getting Rid of Matthew and Gillian McAllister's Anything You Do.