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