
Sue Johnston
Actress
Born: December 7, 1943 (82 years old)
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.
Filmography (34)
- Imagine Me & You (2006, ★ 7.6)
- Help (2021, ★ 7.1)
- Brassed Off (1996, ★ 7)
- Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022, ★ 7.2)
- A Touch of Frost (1992, ★ 7.5)
- Crime Traveller (1997, ★ 7.4)
- Inspector Morse (1987, ★ 7.9)
- Fackham Hall (2025, ★ 6.7)
- Who Do You Think You Are? (2004, ★ 6.8)
- The Royle Family (1998, ★ 7.6)
- Waking the Dead (2001, ★ 7.2)
- Little Dorrit (2008, ★ 7.8)
- The Street (2006, ★ 7.7)
- Timeshift (2002, ★ 7)
- Would I Lie to You? (2007, ★ 7.8)
- Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story (2021, ★ 6.4)
- Cutting It (2002, ★ 6.7)
- Rovers (2016, ★ 6.8)
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996, ★ 7.3)
- Downton Abbey (2010, ★ 8.1)
- Face (1997, ★ 6.2)
- Golden Years (2016, ★ 6.3)
- The Cockfields (2019, ★ 6.4)
- Truelove (2024, ★ 6.4)
- The Responder (2022, ★ 7)
- Time (2021, ★ 7.6)
- Walk Like a Panther (2018, ★ 6.2)
- Jam and Jerusalem (2006, ★ 7)
- Preaching to the Perverted (1997, ★ 6)
- Death on the Tyne (2018, ★ 5.8)