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.
KNOWN FOR
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Jam and Jerusalem
7
The One Show
4.538
Brookside
6.1
Strictly Come Dancing
5.9
Today
5.6
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
6.5
A Touch of Frost
7.5
Crime Traveller
7.4
The Paul O'Grady Show
4.6
Inspector Morse
7.8
Who Do You Think You Are?
6.7
The Royle Family
7.6
Waking the Dead
7.244
Luv
6
Little Dorrit
7.8
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
3.7
The Street
7.667
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?
7.713
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
8
Rovers
6.8
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
7.2
Downton Abbey
8.107
Gates
7
Generation Z
5.7
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
6.7
Truelove
6.2
Loose Women
3.2
The Responder
7.1
Time
7.576
Parkinson
0
DNA Journey
6
Finest Hour
0
Movies
Imagine Me & You
7.6
Help
7.1
Preaching to the Perverted
5.885
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
0
Brassed Off
7
Face
6.264
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
6.5
The Turn of the Screw
4.779
Downton Abbey: A New Era
7.21
Bilby
0
Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
8
The Big Snow of '47
0
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
7
500 Miles North
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
5.8
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
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