
Sonia Dresdel
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.
TV Shows(17)

The Pallisers
Marchioness of Auld Reekie

Lizzie Dripping
The Witch

Sykes
Lady Dorothy

Sykes
Agatha Millhampton

The Onedin Line
Lady Lazenby

The Caesars
Livia

The Man in the Iron Mask
Duchesse de Chevreuse

Boy Meets Girl
Principessa di San Fernando

Mystery and Imagination
Countess

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

Thirty-Minute Theatre
Annie

The Human Jungle
Agnes

Maigret
Mystery of Edwin Drood

Armchair Theatre
Olivia Russell

Armchair Theatre