Merle Dandridge

Biography

Merle Dandridge is a Japanese-American actress who was born in Okinawa, Japan. Dandridge is primarily a stage actress, but has had several roles in television. She has gained a wider audience as the voice of Alyx Vance in the award-winning action game Half-Life 2 and its sequels, Episode One, Episode Two. Her father was an African-American US serviceman from Memphis and her mother was a local Okinawan of Korean and Japanese descent. As well as Okinawa, Dandridge has lived in Sacramento, California, at Beale Air Force Base, and later at Offutt Air Force Base (home to the then-Strategic Air Command) in Bellevue, Nebraska, where she spent the majority of her childhood. She attended Papillion La Vista High School and participated in the play production class and theater department there. She then attended the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University (currently called the Chicago College of Performing Arts) with a scholarship that she earned at the International Thespian Festival.

Most Known For

NCIS

as Marcy Carruthers

The Mentalist

as Lydia Faulk

Suits

as Leah

24

as Kristen Smith

NCIS: Los Angeles

as CIA Officer Nicole Borders

CSI: Miami

as Stacy Garrett

Sons of Anarchy

as Rita Roosevelt

The Last of Us

as Marlene

Angel

as Lacey Shepard

Station 19

as Natasha Ross

Third Watch

as Nikki

Nikita

as Zoe

Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

Perception

as Robyn Sherman

The Newsroom

as Maria Guerrero

Truth Be Told

as Zarina Killebrew

Rosewood

as Charlotte

Secret Level

as Liz Mutton (voice)

The Flight Attendant

as Kim Hammond

Greenleaf

as Grace Greenleaf