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..
- Imagine Me & You 2005
- Preaching to the Perverted 1997
- Face 1997
- Brassed Off 1996
- The Turn of the Screw 2009
- Golden Years 2016
- British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves 2016
- Walk Like a Panther 2018
- Death on the Tyne 2018
- The New Sofa 2008
- The Queen of Sheba 2006
- The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds 1998
- Help 2021
- Downton Abbey: A New Era 2022
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll 1999
- Inspector Morse 1987
- The Royle Family 1998
- Waking the Dead 2001
- Jam & Jerusalem 2006
- A Touch of Frost 1992
- A Passionate Woman 2010
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 1996
- Brookside 1982
- Age Before Beauty 2018
- The Cockfields 2019
- Time 2021
- Downton Abbey 2010
- Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors 2021
- My Uncle Silas 2001
- Truelove 2024
- Cutting It 2002