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.
Filmography
75
Welcome to Borovia
2026
Stuffed
2025
Fackham Hall
2025
Dexter Procter
2025
Big Winners
2025
Generation Z
2024
Truelove
2024
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
The Responder
2022
Help
2021
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
2021
Time
2021
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
2020
The Cure
2019
The Cockfields
2019
Death on the Tyne
2018
Age Before Beauty
2018
Walk Like a Panther
2018
Diana and the Paparazzi
2017
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Rovers
2016
Golden Years
2016
Caring for the Recently Deceased
Caring for the Recently Deceased
2014
Being Eileen
2013
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
2012
Gates
2012
Lapland
2011
Sugartown
2011
Baby Hospital
Baby Hospital
2011
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010
Downton Abbey
2010
A Passionate Woman
2010
The Turn of the Screw
2009
The Golden Egg Cup
2009
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2008
Little Dorrit
2008
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The Street
2006
Imagine Me & You
2006
Cutting It
2002
New Year's Day
2001
My Uncle Silas
2001
Waking the Dead
2001
Score
Score
2001
The Royle Family - Christmas with the Royle Family
1999
Finest Hour
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Brookside: Friday the 13th
Brookside: Friday the 13th
1998
The Royle Family
1998
The Jump
The Jump
1998
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
1998
Duck Patrol
1998
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
1997
Face
1997
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
Crime Traveller
1997
Brassed Off
1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Hollyoaks
1995
Measure for Measure
1994
Luv
Luv
1993
Full Stretch
Full Stretch
1993
A Touch of Frost
1992
Bitter Harvest
1992
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
Performance
1991
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Medics
1990
Inspector Morse
1987
ScreenPlay
1986
Brookside
1982
Bilby
Bilby