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