Sue Johnston
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.
Movies
Stuffed
Lily
Fackham Hall
Great Aunt Bonaparte
Big Winners
Edith Thistle
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
Barbara Royle (archive footage)
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Gladys Denker
Help
Gloria
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
Narrator
The Cure
Bella Bailey
Death on the Tyne
Colleen
Walk Like a Panther
Gladys
Diana and the Paparazzi
Narrator (voice)
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
Narrator
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Barbara Royle (archive footage) (uncredited)
Golden Years
Nancy
Caring for the Recently Deceased
Marjoram Bryon
Barbara's Old Ring
Barbara Royle
Lapland
Eileen Lewis
Joe's Crackers
Barbara
The Turn of the Screw
Sarah Grose
The Golden Egg Cup
Barbara Royle
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
Narrator (voice)
The New Sofa
Barbara Royle
Imagine Me & You
Ella
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
Score
Maggie
New Year's Day
Mrs. Fisher
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Brookside: Friday the 13th
Sheila Grant
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
Pat Phoenix
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
Sheila Grant
Face
Alice
Preaching to the Perverted
Esmeralda
Brassed Off
Vera
Measure for Measure
Mistress Overdone
Bitter Harvest
Miriam Johnson
Bilby
Nancy
TV Series
Dexter Procter
Granny Bet
1 Episode
Generation Z
Cecily
6 Episodes
Truelove
Marion
6 Episodes
The Responder
Madge
1 Episode
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
Narrator
2 Episodes
Time
June Cobden
3 Episodes
The Cockfields
Sue
9 Episodes
Age Before Beauty
Ivy-Rae Regan
6 Episodes
Rovers
Doreen
6 Episodes
Being Eileen
Eileen Lewis
6 Episodes
Gates
Miss Hunter
5 Episodes
Sugartown
3 Episodes
Baby Hospital
3 Episodes
Downton Abbey
Miss Denker
6 Episodes
A Passionate Woman
Betty (1980s)
2 Episodes
Little Dorrit
Affery / Affery Flintwinch
14 Episodes
Jam and Jerusalem
Sal Vine
19 Episodes
The Street
1 Episode
The Paul O'Grady Show
1 Episode
Cutting It
Caroline Ferraday
1 Episode
My Uncle Silas
Mrs. Betts
12 Episodes
Waking the Dead
Dr. Grace Foley
90 Episodes
Finest Hour
Commentary
4 Episodes
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Irma
6 Episodes
The Royle Family
Barbara Royle
20 Episodes
The Jump
Maeve Brunos
4 Episodes
Duck Patrol
Val Rutland
7 Episodes
Crime Traveller
8 Episodes
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Helga Allowby
1 Episode
Hollyoaks
Sheila Grant
1 Episode
Luv
18 Episodes
Full Stretch
Grace Robbins
6 Episodes
A Touch of Frost
Phyllis Bowman
1 Episode
Performance
Mistress Overdone
1 Episode
Medics
35 Episodes
Inspector Morse
Mrs. Bailey
1 Episode
Brookside
Sheila Grant
882 Episodes