Sonia Dresdel

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: Acting

Born: Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK, 1909-05-05

Died: 1976-01-18

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1945	The World Owes Me a Living	Eve Heathley	60
2	1947	While I Live	Julia Trevelyan	66
3	1948	This Was a Woman	Sylvia Russell	60
4	1948	The Fallen Idol	Mrs. Baines	72
5	1950	The Clouded Yellow	Jess Fenton	62
6	1951	The Third Visitor	Steffy Millington	60
7	1956	Now and Forever	Miss Fox	70
8	1960	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	Lady Wilde	64
9	1960	The Adventures of Alice	Red Queen	0
10	1963	The Break	Sarah	65
11	1970	Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary	Professor Louise Mellroy	0
12	1972	Lady Caroline Lamb	Lady Pont	58

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Mystery of Edwin Drood		0
2	1960	Maigret		69
3	1963	The Human Jungle	Agnes	82
4	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Headmistress	50
5	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
6	1968	The Man in the Iron Mask	Duchesse de Chevreuse	0
7	1968	The Caesars	Livia	78
8	1971	The Onedin Line	Lady Lazenby	68
9	1972	Sykes	Lady Dorothy	64
10	1972	Sykes	Agatha Millhampton	64
11	1972	The Strauss Family		0
12	1973	Lizzie Dripping	The Witch	50

Sonia Dresdel

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