Sue Johnston
ActingBorn
December 7, 1943
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Stuffed
2025
Fackham Hall
2025
Big Winners
2025
The Big Snow of '47
2024
Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
2023
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
2023
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021
Help
2021
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star
2020
The Cure
2019
Death on the Tyne
2018
Walk Like a Panther
2018
Diana and the Paparazzi
2017
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
2017
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next
2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
2016
Golden Years
2016
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015
Caring for the Recently Deceased
2014
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
2012
Lapland
2011
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
2010
The Turn of the Screw
2009
The Golden Egg Cup
2009
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
2009
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2008
Imagine Me & You
2006
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
2005
The Virgin Mary
2002
New Year's Day
2001
Score
2001
The royale family - Christmas with the royale family
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Brookside: Friday the 13th
1998
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
1998
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
1997
Face
1997
Preaching to the Perverted
1997
Brassed Off
1996
Measure for Measure
1994
Bitter Harvest
1992
Bilby
Dexter Procter
2025
Generation Z
2024
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
2024
Truelove
2024
The Responder
2022
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
2021
Time
2021
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
2021
The Cockfields
2019
DNA Journey
2019
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
Age Before Beauty
2018
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017
Rovers
2016
Being Eileen
2013
Gates
2012
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Sugartown
2011
Baby Hospital
2011
Downton Abbey
2010
A Passionate Woman
2010
Little Dorrit
2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The Street
2006
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
Timeshift
2002
Cutting It
2002
My Uncle Silas
2001
Waking the Dead
2001
Finest Hour
1999
Loose Women
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
The Royle Family
1998
The Jump
1998
Duck Patrol
1998
Parkinson
1998
Crime Traveller
1997
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Hollyoaks
1995
Luv
1993
Full Stretch
1993
A Touch of Frost
1992
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
Performance
1991
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Medics
1990
Inspector Morse
1987
ScreenPlay
1986
Brookside
1982
Today
1952