Career
Prior to joining Emmerdale, Johnson was a part of the axed United Kingdom soap Brookside, playing Brigid McKenna for three years. In the early 1980s she also played the part of Eunice Gee in Coronation Street, a role she briefly reprised in 1999. In November 1997, she was in the original cast of the London revival of Chicago playing the matron Mama Morton, the prison warder, for more than a year.
She can be heard on the London Cast Recording of Chicago, singing "When You"re Good to Mama", "Maine and My Baby" and "Class".
Following her role in Coronation Street she appeared sporadically on television, and was a part of the cast of Victoria Wood As Seen On television (from 1985 to 1987) alongside Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and others Johnson is married to the former Granada Television continuity announcer, Charles Foster.
