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.
100 acting credits
Acting · 100
Downton Abbey
2010
A Touch of Frost
1992
Waking the Dead
2001
Inspector Morse
1987
Loose Women
1999
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Brookside
1982
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Performance
1991
Parkinson
1998
Hollyoaks
1995
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
ScreenPlay
1986
Today
1952
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
Time
2021
The Street
2006
Little Dorrit
2008
Timeshift
2002
The Responder
2022
Cutting It
2002
The Royle Family
1998
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Fackham Hall
2025
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017
Imagine Me & You
2006
Help
2021
Generation Z
2024
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Truelove
2024
DNA Journey
2019
The Jump
1998
The Cockfields
2019
Full Stretch
1993
Medics
1990
My Uncle Silas
2001
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
2021
Brassed Off
1996
Rovers
2016
Crime Traveller
1997
Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
2023
Sugartown
2011
Duck Patrol
1998
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Gates
2012
A Passionate Woman
2010
Golden Years
2016
Age Before Beauty
2018
Being Eileen
2013
The Turn of the Screw
2009
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
Face
1997
Stuffed
2025
Luv
1993
Big Winners
2025
Death on the Tyne
2018
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015
Brookside: Friday the 13th
1998
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
2024
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
2010
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
2021
Walk Like a Panther
2018
New Year's Day
2001
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
The Golden Egg Cup
2009
Dexter Procter
2025
Finest Hour
1999
The Cure
2019
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
1998
Baby Hospital
2011
Score
2001
Lapland
2011
Measure for Measure
1994
Bitter Harvest
1992
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010
The Big Snow of '47
2024
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
1997
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
2005
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
2023
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2008
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
2012
Caring for the Recently Deceased
2014
Bilby
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Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
2009
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
2016
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
2020
Diana and the Paparazzi
2017
The Virgin Mary
2002
The Royle Family - Christmas with the Royle Family
1999
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
2017
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next
2017