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.
Awards & recognition
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Filmography29 titles
My Uncle Silas
Downton Abbey
Inspector Morse
Little Dorrit
Would I Lie to You?
The Royle Family
Time
The Street
Imagine Me & You
A Touch of Frost
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Waking the Dead
The Responder
Brassed Off
Jam and Jerusalem
Who Do You Think You Are?
Fackham Hall
Truelove
Golden Years
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Preaching to the Perverted
Death on the Tyne
Generation Z
Hollyoaks
The Turn of the Screw
Age Before Beauty
Diana and the Paparazzi
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors