Sue Johnston
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.
18 TV shows
TV Shows
Downton Abbey
ITV1
Inspector Morse
ITV1
Waking the Dead
BBC One
A Touch of Frost
ITV1
Hollyoaks
Channel 4
Would I Lie to You?
BBC One
Brookside
Channel 4
Who Do You Think You Are?
BBC One
The Paul O'Grady Show
ITV1
Strictly Come Dancing
BBC One
Performance
BBC Four
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
BBC One
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
ITV1
Loose Women
ITV1
Parkinson
BBC One
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
BBC One
Today
NBC
Time
BBC One
Other Credits
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll, Crime Traveller, The Royle Family, Luv, Little Dorrit, The Street, Medics, Cutting It, Duck Patrol, A Passionate Woman, Baby Hospital, Timeshift, Sugartown, The Jump, Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule, Rovers, Gates, Generation Z, Being Eileen, Age Before Beauty, Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors, My Uncle Silas, Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two, Full Stretch, The Cockfields, Truelove, The Responder, DNA Journey, Finest Hour, Jam and Jerusalem, Taskmaster’s New Year Treat, Dexter Procter, Goodbye Cruel World, Celebrity Gogglebox, In Suspicious Circumstances