Acting · Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK · Born May 5, 1909
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.
TVThe Pallisers
1974
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
TVLizzie Dripping
1973
as The Witch
MovieLady Caroline Lamb
1972
as Lady Pont
TVSykes
1972
as Lady Dorothy
TVWives and Daughters
1971
as Lady Cumnor
TVThe Onedin Line
1971
as Lady Lazenby
MovieMarie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970
as Professor Louise Mellroy
TVThe Caesars
1968
as Livia
TVThe Man in the Iron Mask
1968
as Duchesse de Chevreuse
City '68
1967
as Mrs. Ralston
TVBoy Meets Girl
1967
as Principessa di San Fernando
North and South
1966
as Mrs. Thornton
TVMystery and Imagination
1966
as Countess
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Headmistress
TVThirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Annie
The Mill on the Floss
1965
as Mrs. Glegg
MovieThe Break
1963
as Sarah
TVThe Human Jungle
1963
as Agnes
The Adventures of Alice
1960
as Red Queen
TVMaigret
1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
MovieThe Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
as Lady Wilde
MovieNow and Forever
1956
as Miss Fox
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Olivia Russell
MovieThe Third Visitor
1951
as Steffy Millington
MovieThe Clouded Yellow
1950
as Jess Fenton
MovieThe Fallen Idol
1948
as Mrs. Baines
MovieThis Was a Woman
1948
as Sylvia Russell
MovieWhile I Live
1947
as Julia Trevelyan
MovieThe World Owes Me a Living
1945
as Eve Heathley
