Sonia Dresdel
Actor
- Born
- May 5, 1909 · Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Died
- January 18, 1976 (age 66)
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.
Known for
The Fallen Idol
September 30, 1948
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
May 28, 1960
The Clouded Yellow
November 21, 1950
Lady Caroline Lamb
November 22, 1972
This Was a Woman
January 27, 1948
The Break
July 7, 1963
The Third Visitor
January 31, 1951
While I Live
October 7, 1947
Now and Forever
September 10, 1956
The World Owes Me a Living
January 1, 1945
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
June 25, 1970
Acting12
- 1972Lady Caroline Lamb as Lady Pont
- 1970Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary as Professor Louise Mellroy
- 1963The Break as Sarah
- 1960The Adventures of Alice as Red Queen
- 1960The Trials of Oscar Wilde as Lady Wilde
- 1956Now and Forever as Miss Fox
- 1951The Third Visitor as Steffy Millington
- 1950The Clouded Yellow as Jess Fenton
- 1948The Fallen Idol as Mrs. Baines
- 1948This Was a Woman