Question: What role did the actress, who starred in the British miniseries Goodbye Cruel World, play in the BBC drama "Waking the Dead"?

Context articles: Goodbye Cruel World (Custard album)
Sue Johnston
Goodbye Cruel World (miniseries)
The Last Few Bricks
Goodbye Cruel World (Shakespears Sister song)
Goodbye Cruel World (Pink Floyd song)
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Korn album)
Goodbye Cruel World (Elvis Costello album)
Punch the Clock
Shakespears Sister discography

Goodbye Cruel World: The Best Of Custard is a best of compilation of Custard, spanning from their first single (Rockfish Anna) to their last album of the 1990s (Loverama).
Sue Johnston OBE (born Susan 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" (1998–2012), 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".
Goodbye Cruel World is a 1992 British miniseries starring Sue Johnston, Alun Armstrong and Brenda Bruce.
 The three-part series was aired on BBC Two during January 1992 and was aired again in summer 1993.
 Johnston played the character of Barbara Grade, a woman who is diagnosed with a terminal degenerative illness, and the series focused on how Barbara and her family and friends deal with her worsening condition.
 It was written by Tony Marchant and directed by Adrian Shergold and was nominated for Best Drama at the 1993 British Academy Television Awards.
"The Last Few Bricks" is an instrumental bridge/medley used by Pink Floyd and Roger Waters at "The Wall" live shows, between "Another Brick in the Wall (Part III)" and "Goodbye Cruel World".
"Goodbye Cruel World" is a song by the British pop act Shakespears Sister, released in 1991 as the lead single from their second album "Hormonally Yours".
 Initially, the song had little commercial impact, reaching #59 on the UK Singles Chart.
 Following the success of the album, the song was re-released as a single in July 1992, slightly remixed, this time reaching #32.
"Goodbye Cruel World" is a song by Pink Floyd.
 It appears on their 1979 double album, "The Wall".
Greatest Hits, Vol.
 1 is a greatest hits compilation released in October 2004 by American rock band Korn.
 The album features select tracks from their first six studio albums presented in reverse chronological order.
 There are two previously unreleased songs on the compilation: a cover of Cameo's "Word Up!
", and a compilation of all three parts of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" and "Goodbye Cruel World".
 These were the final songs recorded with former guitarist Brian Welch, who left the band shortly after the album's release, until his return in 2013.
Goodbye Cruel World was Elvis Costello's ninth album overall and the eighth with his backing band the Attractions.
 It was released in 1984 by F-Beat Records in the UK and Columbia in the US.
Punch the Clock is an album released in 1983 by Elvis Costello and the Attractions.
 It was Costello's eighth album, his seventh with the Attractions since 1978.
 The album featured Costello's first US Top 40 hit, "Everyday I Write the Book."
 It was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who also produced Costello's following album, "Goodbye Cruel World".
The discography of UK-based pop-rock project Shakespears Sister consists of five studio albums, two compilation albums, 3 video albums, and 18 singles.
 Originally a solo act consisting of ex-Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey, it eventually evolved into a duo between Fahey and Marcella Detroit.
 They released their debut studio album "Sacred Heart" in 1989, which reached #9 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold by the BPI.
 The album's lead single, double A Side "Break My Heart / Heroine" did not chart, the second single however, "You're History", reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart, and managed similar top 20 success internationally.
 Their next three singles, "Run Silent", "Dirty Mind", and "Goodbye Cruel World" (the lead single from their second album "Hormonally Yours"), all failed to peak within the UK top 50.
 The second single from "Hormonally Yours", "Stay" was the group's first and only #1, staying at the top position for 8 weeks.
 The song also reached #1 in Ireland and Sweden, and peaked within the top 5 in several other territories.
 "Hormonally Yours" peaked at #3 in the UK and was certified double platinum, and reached similar success in international territories.