Sonia Dresdel
Acting
Born: 1909-05-05 in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
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. 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
BBC Play of the Month
Headmistress
Maigret
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Annie
Sykes
Lady Dorothy
Sykes
Agatha Millhampton
The Onedin Line
Lady Lazenby
The Pallisers
Marchioness of Auld Reekie
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Reed
Mystery and Imagination
Countess
The Human Jungle
Agnes
Lizzie Dripping
The Witch
Boy Meets Girl
Principessa di San Fernando
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duchesse de Chevreuse
The Fallen Idol
Mrs. Baines
The Caesars
Livia
Wives and Daughters
Lady Cumnor
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Pont
Armchair Theatre
Olivia Russell
Armchair Theatre
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Lady Wilde
Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Clouded Yellow
Jess Fenton
Now and Forever
Miss Fox
This Was a Woman
Sylvia Russell
While I Live
Julia Trevelyan
The Break
Sarah
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Professor Louise Mellroy
The World Owes Me a Living
Eve Heathley
The Third Visitor
Steffy Millington