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