Acting
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.
Titles
Brookside
1982
Downton Abbey
2010
Loose Women
1999
Hollyoaks
1995
A Touch of Frost
1992
Waking the Dead
2001
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Today
1952
Inspector Morse
1987
Parkinson
1998
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
DNA Journey
2019
The Responder
2022
Performance
1991
ScreenPlay
1986
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Time
2021
Timeshift
2002
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Cutting It
2002
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
The Street
2006
Little Dorrit
2008
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The Royle Family
1998
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017
Imagine Me & You
2006
The Cockfields
2019
Ann Droid
2026
Fackham Hall
2025
Truelove
2024
Medics
1990