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.
As actor 104
Downton Abbey
2010
Loose Women
1999
Brookside
1982
A Touch of Frost
1992
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Hollyoaks
1995
Waking the Dead
2001
Parkinson
1998
Inspector Morse
1987
Today
1952
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Performance
1991
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
Timeshift
2002
ScreenPlay
1986
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
The Responder
2022
Time
2021
Ann Droid
2026
DNA Journey
2019
Little Dorrit
2008
Fackham Hall
2025
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Cutting It
2002
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Duck Patrol
1998
Imagine Me & You
2006
The Royle Family
1998
The Street
2006
Bilby
The Cockfields
2019
Generation Z
2024
Medics
1990
Lapland
2011
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017
Brassed Off
1996
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
2021
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Truelove
2024
Age Before Beauty
2018
Dexter Procter
2025
Stuffed
2025
My Uncle Silas
2001
Verdict
1998
Big Winners
2025
Crime Traveller
1997
Play for Today
2025
Bitter Harvest
1992
Sugartown
2011
A Passionate Woman
2010
Rovers
2016
Baby Hospital
2011
Luv
1993
The Jump
1998
Full Stretch
1993
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
Help
2021
Being Eileen
2013
Golden Years
2016
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
2024
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2008
The Turn of the Screw
2009
Face
1997
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
2023
Welcome to Borovia
2026
Gates
2012
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
Death on the Tyne
2018
Finest Hour
1999
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
2012
Score
2001
The Virgin Mary
2002
Caring for the Recently Deceased
2014
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Measure for Measure
1994
Walk Like a Panther
2018
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
2021
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015
New Year's Day
2001
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
2010
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023
The Big Snow of '47
2024
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
1997
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
2017
The Cure
2019
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
2009
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
2005
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
2016
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
1998
Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
2023
The Golden Egg Cup
2009
Brookside: Friday the 13th
1998
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
2020
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next
2017
Diana and the Paparazzi
2017