Sue Johnston
Acting
Born 1943-12-07 · 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.
Known for
Downton Abbey
2010 · TV
Inspector Morse
1987 · TV
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · TV
Time
2021 · TV
Little Dorrit
2008 · TV
The Royle Family
1998 · TV
A Touch of Frost
1992 · TV
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV
The Responder
2022 · TV
The Street
2006 · TV
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 · TV
Gates
2012 · TV
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · TV
Jam and Jerusalem
2006 · TV
My Uncle Silas
2001 · TV
Sugartown
2011 · TV
Crime Traveller
1997 · TV
Cutting It
2002 · TV
Goodbye Cruel World
1992 · TV
Timeshift
2002 · TV
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999 · TV
Rovers
2016 · TV
Finest Hour
1999 · TV
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
2021 · TV
Play for Today
2025 · TV
Dexter Procter
2025 · TV
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
2024 · TV
Being Eileen
2013 · TV
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
2021 · TV
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991 · TV
DNA Journey
2019 · TV
Performance
1991 · TV
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019 · TV
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV
Duck Patrol
1998 · TV
Medics
1990 · TV
Truelove
2024 · TV
The Cockfields
2019 · TV
Ann Droid
2026 · TV
Brookside
1982 · TV
A Passionate Woman
2010 · TV
Age Before Beauty
2018 · TV
Generation Z
2024 · TV
Hollyoaks
1995 · TV
Loose Women
1999 · TV
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017 · TV
Parkinson
1998 · TV
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · TV
Strictly Come Dancing
2004 · TV
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004 · TV
Today
1952 · TV