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.
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Full filmography
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Headmistress
- Maigret (1960)
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Annie
- The Onedin Line (1971) as Lady Lazenby
- Sykes (1972) as Lady Dorothy
- Sykes (1972) as Agatha Millhampton
- The Human Jungle (1963) as Agnes
- Mystery and Imagination (1966) as Countess
- The Pallisers (1974) as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
- The Caesars (1968) as Livia
- Armchair Theatre (1956) as Olivia Russell
- Armchair Theatre (1956)
- The Fallen Idol (1948) as Mrs. Baines
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1968) as Duchesse de Chevreuse
- City '68 (1967) as Mrs. Ralston
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Lady Wilde
- Boy Meets Girl (1967) as Principessa di San Fernando
- Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960)
- Lizzie Dripping (1973) as The Witch
- Now and Forever (1956) as Miss Fox
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) as Lady Pont
- The Mill on the Floss (1965) as Mrs. Glegg
- This Was a Woman (1948) as Sylvia Russell
- The Clouded Yellow (1950) as Jess Fenton