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.
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Movies (12)
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972 · Lady Pont
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970 · Professor Louise Mellroy
The Break
1963 · Sarah
The Adventures of Alice
1960 · Red Queen
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 · Lady Wilde
Now and Forever
1956 · Miss Fox
The Third Visitor
1951 · Steffy Millington
The Clouded Yellow
1950 · Jess Fenton
The Fallen Idol
1948 · Mrs. Baines
This Was a Woman
1948 · Sylvia Russell
While I Live
1947 · Julia Trevelyan
The World Owes Me a Living
1945 · Eve Heathley
TV shows (20)
The Pallisers
1974 · Marchioness of Auld Reekie
Lizzie Dripping
1973 · The Witch
Sykes
1972 · Lady Dorothy, Agatha Millhampton
Wives and Daughters
1971 · Lady Cumnor
The Onedin Line
1971 · Lady Lazenby
The Caesars
1968 · Livia
The Man in the Iron Mask
1968 · Duchesse de Chevreuse
City '68
1967 · Mrs. Ralston
Boy Meets Girl
1967 · Principessa di San Fernando
North and South
1966 · Mrs. Thornton
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Countess
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Headmistress
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Annie
The Mill on the Floss
1965 · Mrs. Glegg
Jane Eyre
1963 · Mrs. Reed
The Human Jungle
1963 · Agnes
Maigret
1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
David Copperfield
1956 · Miss Betsey Trotwood
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Olivia Russell