Sue Johnston
Department: 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.
Known For
Imagine Me & You
2006
Help
2021
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
2020
Brassed Off
1996
Face
1997
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021
The Turn of the Screw
2009
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Bilby
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Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
2023
The Big Snow of '47
2024
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
2009
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Lapland
2011
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
1997
Brookside: Friday the 13th
1998
Golden Years
2016
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next
2017
Caring for the Recently Deceased
2014
Measure for Measure
1994
New Year's Day
2000
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Walk Like a Panther
2018
Score
2001
Death on the Tyne
2018
Bitter Harvest
1992
Diana and the Paparazzi
2017
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
2012
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2008
The Cure
2019
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
2016
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
1998
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010
The Golden Egg Cup
2009
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
2010
The Virgin Mary
2002
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
2005
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
2017
Big Winners
2025
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
2023
Stuffed
2025
Fackham Hall
2025
Brookside
1982
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
Today
1952
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
A Touch of Frost
1992
Crime Traveller
1997
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Inspector Morse
1987
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Royle Family
1998
Waking the Dead
2001
Luv
1993
Little Dorrit
2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
The Street
2006
Medics
1990
Cutting It
2002
Duck Patrol
1998
A Passionate Woman
2010
Baby Hospital
2011
Timeshift
2002
Sugartown
2011
The Jump
1998
Performance
1991
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017
Rovers
2016
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Downton Abbey
2010
Gates
2012
Generation Z
2024
Being Eileen
2013
Age Before Beauty
2018
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
2021
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
My Uncle Silas
2001
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
2024
Full Stretch
1993
The Cockfields
2019
Truelove
2024
Loose Women
1999
The Responder
2022
Time
2021
Parkinson
1998
DNA Journey
2019
Finest Hour
1999
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Hollyoaks
1995
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
2021
Dexter Procter
2025
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019