In 1999, Gayle played Belle, the lead female, in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", and she returned to television acting in 2003, guest-starring in the BBC television dramas "Doctors" and "Holby City". She went on to play the role of Lara in the Five soap opera, "Family Affairs" (2005), and played the lead female character, Yvonne, in the film "Joy Division", which was released in November 2006. The film tells the story of a German boy who is orphaned in World War II and then groomed as a KGB sleeper. Gayle starred in Jason Barrett's British feature film "The Naked Poet" as character Joanne, which was screened in London's Mayfair Hotel December 2011.