Sonia Dresdel
Known For
Acting
Born
1909-05-05 in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
1976-01-18
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.
Most Known For
BBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress
The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby
Maigret
Mystery and Imagination
as Countess
Sykes
as Lady Dorothy
Sykes
as Agatha Millhampton
The Human Jungle
as Agnes
The Pallisers
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Caesars
as Livia
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse
The Mill on the Floss
as Mrs. Glegg
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
Lizzie Dripping
as The Witch
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington