Sue Johnston

Born: 1943-12-07, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

Biography

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.

Filmography

• Downton Abbey (2010)
• Brookside (1982)
• Hollyoaks (1995)
• A Touch of Frost (1992)
• Waking the Dead (2001)
• The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
• Inspector Morse (1987)
• ScreenPlay (1986)
• Celebrity Gogglebox (2019)
• Time (2021)
• Ann Droid (2026)
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996)
• Cutting It (2002)
• Fackham Hall (2025)
• In Suspicious Circumstances (1991)
• The Street (2006)
• Imagine Me & You (2006)
• Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
• Generation Z (2024)
• The Royle Family (1998)
• Medics (1990)
• Brassed Off (1996)
• Lapland (2011)
• Dexter Procter (2025)
• Truelove (2024)
• Stuffed (2025)
• Crime Traveller (1997)
• Big Winners (2025)
• The Turn of the Screw (2009)
• Preaching to the Perverted (1997)