Sue Johnston
Acting
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.
Movies
Fackham Hall
2025
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
2017
Imagine Me & You
2006
Brassed Off
1996
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
The Cure
2019
Face
1997
Diana and the Paparazzi
2017
Lapland
2011
Bitter Harvest
1992
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
2023
Help
2021
Walk Like a Panther
2018
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023
New Year's Day
2000
Death on the Tyne
2018
Big Winners
2025
The Turn of the Screw
2009
TV Shows
Downton Abbey
2010
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Waking the Dead
2001
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
Inspector Morse
1987
A Touch of Frost
1992
Parkinson
1998
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Loose Women
1999
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Brookside
1982
Hollyoaks
1995
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Time
2021
Performance
1991
The Street
2006
The Responder
2022
Timeshift
2002
Jam and Jerusalem
2006