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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The One Show
4.741
Brookside
6.1
Strictly Come Dancing
5.9
Today
5.793
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
6.5
A Touch of Frost
7.507
Crime Traveller
7.4
The Paul O'Grady Show
4.6
Inspector Morse
7.845
Who Do You Think You Are?
6.729
The Royle Family
7.6
Waking the Dead
7.2
Luv
6
Little Dorrit
7.806
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
3.7
The Street
7.7
Medics
5.3
Cutting It
6.714
Duck Patrol
5
A Passionate Woman
6.7
Baby Hospital
0
Timeshift
7
Sugartown
8.5
The Jump
6
Performance
6
Would I Lie to You?
7.714
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
8
Rovers
6.8
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
7.278
Downton Abbey
8.1
Gates
7
Generation Z
5.6
Being Eileen
0
Age Before Beauty
3.3
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
5
My Uncle Silas
7
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
0
Full Stretch
8
The Cockfields
6.563
Truelove
6.286
Loose Women
3.2
The Responder
7.079
Time
7.582
Parkinson
0
DNA Journey
6
Finest Hour
0
Jam and Jerusalem
7
Movies
Imagine Me & You
7.572
Help
7.124
Preaching to the Perverted
6.1
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
0
Brassed Off
7.007
Face
6.243
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
6.5
The Turn of the Screw
4.779
Downton Abbey: A New Era
7.23
Bilby
0
Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
8
The Big Snow of '47
0
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
7
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
0
Lapland
0
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
6.8
Brookside: Friday the 13th
5.5
Golden Years
6.3
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next
0
Caring for the Recently Deceased
0
Measure for Measure
1
New Year's Day
5
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
5.7
Walk Like a Panther
6.2
Score
0
Death on the Tyne
5.792
Bitter Harvest
0
Diana and the Paparazzi
0
Barbara's Old Ring
7
The New Sofa
7.7
The Cure
7.5
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
7
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
9.333
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
0
Joe's Crackers
7.2
The Golden Egg Cup
8
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
8.4
The Virgin Mary
0
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
0
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
0