Acting
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.
Loose Women
1999 · TV
Brookside
1982 · TV
Hollyoaks
1995 · TV
Strictly Come Dancing
2004 · TV
Downton Abbey
2010 · TV
Today
1952 · TV
A Touch of Frost
1992 · TV
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · TV
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004 · TV
Inspector Morse
1987 · TV
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · TV
Parkinson
1998 · TV
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · TV
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019 · TV
Performance
1991 · TV
Ann Droid
2026 · TV
My Uncle Silas
2001 · TV
Timeshift
2002 · TV
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 · TV
Time
2021 · TV
Jam and Jerusalem
2006 · TV
Cutting It
2002 · TV
Little Dorrit
2008 · TV
The Responder
2022 · TV
The Street
2006 · TV
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991 · TV
The Royle Family
1998 · TV
Fackham Hall
2025 · Movie
Imagine Me & You
2006 · Movie
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022 · Movie
DNA Journey
2019 · TV
Medics
1990 · TV
The Cockfields
2019 · TV
Duck Patrol
1998 · TV
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017 · TV
Generation Z
2024 · TV
Truelove
2024 · TV
Taskmaster’s New Year Treat
2021 · TV
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999 · TV
Lapland
2011 · Movie
Play for Today
2025 · TV
Stuffed
2025 · Movie
Age Before Beauty
2018 · TV
Dexter Procter
2025 · TV
Rovers
2016 · TV
Crime Traveller
1997 · TV
Brassed Off
1996 · Movie
A Passionate Woman
2010 · TV
Bitter Harvest
1992 · Movie
Sugartown
2011 · TV
Goodbye Cruel World
1992 · TV
Being Eileen
2013 · TV
Gates
2012 · TV
Big Winners
2025 · Movie
Help
2021 · Movie
The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers
2010 · Movie
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002 · Movie
Preaching to the Perverted
1997 · Movie
Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two
2024 · TV
The Turn of the Screw
2009 · Movie
The Royle Family: The New Sofa
2008 · Movie
Face
1997 · Movie
Welcome to Borovia
2026 · Movie
Walk Like a Panther
2018 · Movie
Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors
2021 · TV
The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa
2023 · Movie
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
2021 · Movie
Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
2009 · Movie
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
2012 · Movie
Death on the Tyne
2018 · Movie
Measure for Measure
1994 · Movie
Golden Years
2016 · Movie
Finest Hour
1999 · TV
New Year's Day
2001 · Movie
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
2010 · Movie
Diana and the Paparazzi
2017 · Movie
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015 · Movie
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · Movie
The Cure
2019 · Movie
Brookside: The Lost Weekend
1997 · Movie
Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
2023 · Movie
The Big Snow of '47
2024 · Movie
Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story
2017 · Movie
World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys
2016 · Movie
The Golden Egg Cup
2009 · Movie
The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds
1998 · Movie
The Virgin Mary
2002 · Movie
Liverpool FC: One Night in May
2005 · Movie
Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family
2023 · Movie
Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next
2017 · Movie
