Sue Johnston
Acting
Susan Johnston, OBE (née Wright; born 7 December 1943) is an English actress known for playing Sheila Grant in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982–1990), Barbara Royle in the BBC comedy The Royle Family (1998–2000, 2006, 2008–2010, 2012), Grace Foley in the BBC drama Waking the Dead (2000–2011), Gloria Price in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2012–2014) and Miss Denker in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2014–2015). She won the 2000 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress and was nominated for the 2000 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance for The Royle Family.
Born: December 7, 1943 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Filmography (43)
Fackham Hall
2025
Generation Z
2024
Truelove
2024
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
The Responder
2022
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021
Help
2021
Time
2021
The Cockfields
2019
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
Death on the Tyne
2018
Walk Like a Panther
2018
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017
Rovers
2016
Golden Years
2016
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Downton Abbey
2010
A Passionate Woman
2010
The Turn of the Screw
2009
Little Dorrit
2008
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The Street
2006
Imagine Me & You
2006
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
Timeshift
2002
Cutting It
2002
Waking the Dead
2001
Loose Women
1999
The Royle Family
1998
Parkinson
1998
Face
1997
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
Brassed Off
1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Hollyoaks
1995
A Touch of Frost
1992
Performance
1991
Inspector Morse
1987
Brookside
1982
Today
1952