Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 5, 1909
Place of Birth
Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Lois Obee
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.
Known For - Movies
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
The Break
as Sarah
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
Known For - TV Shows
BBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress
Maigret
Sykes
as Lady Dorothy
Sykes
as Agatha Millhampton
Mystery and Imagination
as Countess
The Human Jungle
as Agnes
The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby
The Pallisers
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
The Caesars
as Livia
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse