Born in Manchester in 1936, Johnson had a number of TV roles before making her Coronation Street debut in 1976 as Brenda Holden.
She went on to jon the soap's cast as Eunice Gee in 1981, a role she returned to several times for the next two decades. She was also part of the cast of Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV in the mid-1980s, alongside the late comedian, Dame Julie Walters and Celia Imrie, and in 1997, she took to the stage in the original cast of the London revival of Chicago, playing prison warder Matron Mama Morton for more than a year.
In 2000, she was cast as Brigid McKenna in Channel 4's Brookside, playing the role until the soap's cancellation in 2003, when she moved on to Emmerdale, where she portrayed the much loved character Pearl Ladderbanks for 17 years. Johnson was married to ITV Granada continuity announcer Charles Foster, who was widely reported to have died earlier in 2023.
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