Sonia Dresdel

Known for ActingBorn 1909-05-05Died 1976-01-18Hornsea, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Mill on the Floss

The Human Jungle

The Caesars

The Man in the Iron Mask

The World Owes Me a Living

Maigret

Lizzie Dripping

The Onedin Line

The Fallen Idol

The Break

Now and Forever

Sykes

While I Live

The Pallisers

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Third Visitor

The Clouded Yellow

Lady Caroline Lamb

Armchair Theatre

Mystery and Imagination

This Was a Woman

BBC Play of the Month

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary

Boy Meets Girl

The Adventures of Alice

Mystery of Edwin Drood