Sonia Dresdel

Sonia Dresdel

1909-05-05 – 1976-01-18 (age 66) Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
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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.

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Known For

The Fallen Idol
The Fallen Idol

1948

as Mrs. Baines

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1960

as Lady Wilde

The Clouded Yellow
The Clouded Yellow

1950

as Jess Fenton

Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb

1972

as Lady Pont

Now and Forever
Now and Forever

1956

as Miss Fox

The Break
The Break

1963

as Sarah

This Was a Woman
This Was a Woman

1948

as Sylvia Russell

The Third Visitor
The Third Visitor

1951

as Steffy Millington

While I Live
While I Live

1947

as Julia Trevelyan

The World Owes Me a Living
The World Owes Me a Living

1945

as Eve Heathley

Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary

1970

as Professor Louise Mellroy

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The Adventures of Alice

1960

as Red Queen