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.
Filmography
all 22
TV Shows 11
Movies 11
Narcas (2023)
Lizzie Dripping (1973)
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Sykes (1972)
The Onedin Line (1971)
The Caesars (1968)
The Mill on the Floss (1965)
The Break (1963)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Death Over My Shoulder (1958)
Now and Forever (1956)
The Third Visitor (1951)
The Clouded Yellow (1950)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
This Was a Woman (1948)
The World Owes Me a Living (1945)
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Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-05-05
Deathday
1976-01-18 (66 years old)
Birth Name
Lois Obee
Birth Place
Hornsea, United Kingdom
Citizenships
United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Also Known As
Lois Obee
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