Sonia Dresdel
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Sonia Dresdel

May 5, 1909 - Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK

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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Cast

Media
Movie1948The Fallen IdolMrs. Baines
Movie1950The Clouded YellowJess Fenton
Movie1963The BreakSarah
Movie1960The Trials of Oscar WildeLady Wilde
Movie1951The Third VisitorSteffy Millington
Movie1947While I LiveJulia Trevelyan
Movie1945The World Owes Me a LivingEve Heathley
Movie1972Lady Caroline LambLady Pont
Movie1956Now and ForeverMiss Fox
Movie1948This Was a WomanSylvia Russell
Movie1970Marie Stopes: Sexual RevolutionaryProfessor Louise Mellroy
Movie1960The Adventures of AliceRed Queen
TV Show1973Lizzie DrippingThe Witch9
TV Show1966Mystery and Imagination1
TV Show1968The CaesarsLivia6
TV Show1960Maigret1
TV Show1960Mystery of Edwin Drood5
TV Show1972The Strauss Family8
TV Show1963The Human JungleAgnes1
TV Show1971The Onedin LineLady Lazenby1
TV Show1972SykesLady Dorothy1
TV Show1972SykesAgatha Millhampton1
TV Show1965BBC Play of the MonthHeadmistress1
TV Show1968The Man in the Iron MaskDuchesse de Chevreuse1

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