Rhoda Ann Roberts AO (born 1959) is an Australian actress, director and arts executive.

Born in Canterbury Hospital in Sydney in 1959,^[1] Bundjalung woman Roberts grew up and completed Year 10 in Lismore, then moved back to Sydney, where she qualified as a nurse at Canterbury Hospital in 1979.^[2][1]

Roberts co-starred with Rachael Maza and Lydia Miller in Belvoir Street Theatre's 1993 production of Louis Nowra's play Radiance.^[3]

In 1989, she presented the SBS Television program First In Line^[4] along with Michael Johnson.^[5] Roberts was employed as presenter of Vox Populi, an SBS Television program, in 1990,^[6] becoming the first Indigenous Australian to present a prime time current affairs program.^[7]

In 1995 she founded the Festival of Dreaming and was its director until 2009.^[8]

Roberts has been Head of Indigenous Programming at the Sydney Opera House since 2012.^[2][9]

Roberts was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to the performing arts through a range of leadership and advocacy roles in the development, promotion and presentation of contemporary Indigenous culture".^[10]

She was honoured with one of the 2017 Centenary Sue Nattrass Awards presented at the 18th Helpmann Awards.^[11][12]

In September 2021, Roberts was named as the inaugural elder-in-residence at SBS Television. The new position, in which the office-holder is intended to be a "guide and counsel" on Indigenous content, had an initial term of one year, with the possibility of a two-year extension.^[13]

Penny Tweedie's image of Roberts is held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.^[2]

Was married to actor Bill Hunter from 1993 to 1999. Roberts married Steven Field, and they have three children.^[14]