Sue Johnston
Acting
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.
Shows
Downton Abbey
Waking the Dead
Strictly Come Dancing
Inspector Morse
Hollyoaks
A Touch of Frost
Would I Lie to You?
Brookside
Performance
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Time
The Responder
The Street
Little Dorrit
The Royle Family
Cutting It
Celebrity Gogglebox
Jam and Jerusalem
Truelove
My Uncle Silas
Generation Z
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
The Cockfields
Rovers
Being Eileen
Gates
Crime Traveller
Duck Patrol
Age Before Beauty
A Passionate Woman
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Sugartown
Goodbye Cruel World
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
Dexter Procter