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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
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
The Break
as Sarah
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve Heathley
