Known For
Acting
Born
May 05, 1909
Died
Jan 18, 1976
Place of Birth
Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Credits
32 titles
Sonia Dresdel
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
Filmography
The Pallisers
Marchioness of Auld Reekie
Lizzie Dripping
The Witch
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Pont
Sykes
Lady Dorothy
Wives and Daughters
Lady Cumnor
The Onedin Line
Lady Lazenby
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Professor Louise Mellroy
The Caesars
Livia
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duchesse de Chevreuse
City '68
Mrs. Ralston
Boy Meets Girl
Principessa di San Fernando
North and South
Mrs. Thornton
Mystery and Imagination
Countess
BBC Play of the Month
Headmistress
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Annie
The Mill on the Floss
Mrs. Glegg
The Break
Sarah
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Reed
The Human Jungle
Agnes
The Adventures of Alice
Red Queen
Maigret
Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Lady Wilde
David Copperfield
Miss Betsey Trotwood
Now and Forever
Miss Fox
Armchair Theatre
Olivia Russell
The Third Visitor
Steffy Millington
The Clouded Yellow
Jess Fenton
The Fallen Idol
Mrs. Baines
This Was a Woman
Sylvia Russell
While I Live
Julia Trevelyan
The World Owes Me a Living
Eve Heathley