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Sue Johnston

Sue Johnston

Birthday: 1943-12-07 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Generation Z

as    Cecily

2024
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two

as    Herself

2024
Truelove

as    Marion

2024
2024
2024
The Big Snow of '47

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2023
2021
Help

as    Gloria

2021
2021
2019
The Cure

as    Bella Bailey

2019
The Cockfields

as    Sue

2018
Death on the Tyne

as    Colleen

2018
Walk Like a Panther

as    Gladys

2018
Age Before Beauty

as    Ivy-Rae Regan

2017
2017
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next

as    Self - Narrator

2016
Rovers

as    Doreen

2016
Golden Years

as    Nancy

2014
Caring for the Recently Deceased

as    Marjoram Bryon

2014
500 Miles North

as    Stein

2013
Being Eileen

as    Eileen Lewis

2012
Barbara's Old Ring

as    Barbara Royle

2012
Gates

as    Miss Hunter

2011
Lapland

as    Eileen Lewis

2010
A Passionate Woman

as    Betty (1980s)