Acting
Community Rating
6.6
TMDB estimate
Born
May 5, 1909
Died
January 18, 1976 (age 66)
Born in
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.

The Pallisers
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
1974

Lizzie Dripping
as The Witch
1973

Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
1972

Sykes
as Lady Dorothy
1972

The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby
1971

Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy
1970

The Caesars
as Livia
1968

The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse
1968

Mystery and Imagination
as Countess
1966

BBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress
1965
The Mill on the Floss
as Mrs. Glegg
1965

The Break
as Sarah
1963

The Human Jungle
as Agnes
1963
The Adventures of Alice
as Red Queen
1960

Maigret
1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
1960

Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
1956

Armchair Theatre
as Olivia Russell
1956

The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
1951