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Sue Johnston
🎂 Dec 7, 1943 (82)
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
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Fackham Hall
2025
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Imagine Me & You
2006
Brassed Off
1996
Help
2021
Face
1997
Golden Years
2016
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
New Year's Day
2000
Walk Like a Panther
2018
Death on the Tyne
2018
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2008
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
2012
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
1997
TV Shows
Waking the Dead
2001
The Royle Family
1998
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Little Dorrit
2008
My Uncle Silas
2001
The Cockfields
2019
Duck Patrol
1998
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Rovers
2016
Downton Abbey
2010
Generation Z
2024
Being Eileen
2013
Age Before Beauty
2018
Truelove
2024
Gates
2012
Time
2021
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
A Passionate Woman
2010
A Touch of Frost
1992
Inspector Morse
1987
Cutting It
2002
Performance
1991
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
The Responder
2022
Dexter Procter
2025
Filmography
Fackham Hall
Great Aunt Bonaparte
2025
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Dexter Procter
Granny Bet
2025
TV
Generation Z
Cecily
2024
TV
Truelove
Marion
2024
TV
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Gladys Denker
2022
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The Responder
Madge
2022
TV
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Sue Johnston
1943-12-07 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.