Sue Johnston

Acting 96 credits

Birthday

Dec 07, 1943 (82 years)

Place of Birth

Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

Biography

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.

Sue Johnston

Biography

Movies (45)

Downton Abbey: A New Era

The Turn of the Screw

Fackham Hall

Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story

Measure for Measure

Help

Liverpool FC: One Night in May

Brookside: The Lost Weekend

The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa

The Golden Egg Cup

Imagine Me & You

Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

The Big Snow of '47

Diana and the Paparazzi

Walk Like a Panther

David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star

Brassed Off

TV Shows (51)

Loose Women

Downton Abbey

Strictly Come Dancing

Brookside

Hollyoaks

Waking the Dead

The Paul O'Grady Show

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

Parkinson

Today

A Touch of Frost

Would I Lie to You?

Inspector Morse

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Performance

Who Do You Think You Are?

Timeshift

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates