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 & You2005
- Preaching to the Perverted1997
- Face1997
- Brassed Off1996
- The Turn of the Screw2009
- Golden Years2016
- British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves2016
- Walk Like a Panther2018
- Death on the Tyne2018
- The New Sofa2008
- The Queen of Sheba2006
- The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds1998
- Help2021
- Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999
- Inspector Morse1987
- The Royle Family1998
- Waking the Dead2001
- Jam & Jerusalem2006
- A Touch of Frost1992
- A Passionate Woman2010
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates1996
- Brookside1982
- Age Before Beauty2018
- The Cockfields2019
- Time2021
- Downton Abbey2010
- Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors2021
- My Uncle Silas2001
- Truelove2024
- Cutting It2002