Sue Johnston

Sue Johnston

Birthday: 1943-12-07

Place of birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

Also known as: Susan Wright, Susan Johnston, OBE

imdb_id: nm0426855

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.

Played in movies:

The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One

Score: 9.3

The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa

Score: 8.4

The Golden Egg Cup

Score: 8.0

Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy

Score: 8.0

The New Sofa

Score: 7.7

Imagine Me & You

Score: 7.6

The Cure

Score: 7.5

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Score: 7.2

Joe's Crackers

Score: 7.2

Help

Score: 7.1

World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys

Score: 7.0

Barbara's Old Ring

Score: 7.0

Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It

Score: 7.0

Brassed Off

Score: 7.0

Brookside: The Lost Weekend

Score: 6.8

Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story

Score: 6.5

Golden Years

Score: 6.3

Face

Score: 6.3

Walk Like a Panther

Score: 6.2

Preaching to the Perverted

Score: 6.1

Death on the Tyne

Score: 5.8

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Score: 5.7

Brookside: Friday the 13th

Score: 5.5

New Year's Day

Score: 5.0

The Turn of the Screw

Score: 4.8

Measure for Measure

Score: 1.0

Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story

Score: 0.0

Liverpool FC: One Night in May

Score: 0.0

The Virgin Mary

Score: 0.0

The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds

Score: 0.0

Diana and the Paparazzi

Score: 0.0

Bitter Harvest

Score: 0.0

Score

Score: 0.0

Caring for the Recently Deceased

Score: 0.0

Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next

Score: 0.0

Lapland

Score: 0.0

Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

Score: 0.0

The Big Snow of '47

Score: 0.0

Bilby

Score: 0.0

David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Sugartown

Score: 8.5

Downton Abbey

Score: 8.1

Full Stretch

Score: 8.0

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

Score: 8.0

Inspector Morse

Score: 7.8

Little Dorrit

Score: 7.8

Would I Lie to You?

Score: 7.7

The Street

Score: 7.7

The Royle Family

Score: 7.6

Time

Score: 7.6

A Touch of Frost

Score: 7.5

Crime Traveller

Score: 7.4

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Score: 7.3

Waking the Dead

Score: 7.2

The Responder

Score: 7.1

Jam and Jerusalem

Score: 7.0

My Uncle Silas

Score: 7.0

Gates

Score: 7.0

Timeshift

Score: 7.0

Rovers

Score: 6.8

Who Do You Think You Are?

Score: 6.7

Cutting It

Score: 6.7

A Passionate Woman

Score: 6.7

The Cockfields

Score: 6.6

Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

Score: 6.5

Truelove

Score: 6.3

Brookside

Score: 6.1

DNA Journey

Score: 6.0

Performance

Score: 6.0

The Jump

Score: 6.0

Luv

Score: 6.0

Strictly Come Dancing

Score: 5.9

Today

Score: 5.8

Generation Z

Score: 5.3

Medics

Score: 5.3

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Score: 5.0

Duck Patrol

Score: 5.0

The One Show

Score: 4.6

The Paul O'Grady Show

Score: 4.6

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

Score: 3.7

Age Before Beauty

Score: 3.3

Loose Women

Score: 3.2

Finest Hour

Score: 0.0

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two

Score: 0.0

Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors

Score: 0.0

Being Eileen

Score: 0.0

Baby Hospital

Score: 0.0