Sonia Dresdel
12 movies · 20 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 5, 1909
- Died
- Jan 18, 1976 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Lois Obee
Biography
Sonia Dresdel (5 May 1909 - 18 January 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.
She was born Lois Obee in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England and was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls.
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Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live gained her a great deal of acclaim. In the film she plays Julia Trevelyan, a spinster living in a lonely cliff top house in Cornwall and haunted by the death of her sister 25 years earlier.
Her most noted role was that of "Mrs. Baines" in the 1948 film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, which starred Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan.
The film received Academy Awards nominations for Best Director (Sir Carol Reed) and Best Screenplay.
She died of undisclosed causes, aged 66.
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Known for
Sonia Dresdel: movies and TV shows
Acting (32)
- 1974
- 1973
- 1972 Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
- 1972
- 1971
- 1971
- 1970 Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1963 The Break
as Sarah
- 1963
- 1963
- 1960 The Adventures of Alice
as Red Queen
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
- 1956
- 1956 Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
- 1956
- 1951 The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
- 1950 The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
- 1948 The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
- 1948 This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
- 1947 While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
- 1945 The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve Heathley