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