Sue Johnston
Born December 7, 1943 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Fackham Hall
Imagine Me & You
Brassed Off
Preaching to the Perverted
Death on the Tyne
Lapland
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
Walk Like a Panther
The Turn of the Screw
Golden Years
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Big Winners
Stuffed
Help
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
Bitter Harvest
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
New Year's Day
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
Face
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
The Golden Egg Cup
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
The Cure
Measure for Measure
The Big Snow of '47
Diana and the Paparazzi
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
Welcome to Borovia
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next
The Virgin Mary
Unreleased
The Broken Arrow
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
TV Shows
Waking the Dead
A Touch of Frost
Would I Lie to You?
Strictly Come Dancing
Parkinson
Inspector Morse
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
The Paul O'Grady Show
Today
Performance
DNA Journey
Who Do You Think You Are?
ScreenPlay
Celebrity Gogglebox
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Timeshift
In Suspicious Circumstances
Little Dorrit
Time
The Street
Cutting It
The Responder
Jam and Jerusalem
The Royle Family
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
Ann Droid
Generation Z
The Cockfields
Truelove
Medics
Duck Patrol
My Uncle Silas
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
Crime Traveller
Being Eileen
A Passionate Woman
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Sugartown
Play for Today
Age Before Beauty
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
