
Sonia Dresdel
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1909-05-05
Day of Death
1976-01-18 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
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
Acting
(1972)
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
(1963)
The Break
as Sarah
(1960)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
(1956)
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
(1951)
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
(1950)
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
(1948)
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
(1948)
This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
(1947)
While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
(1945)
The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve Heathley