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