Sonia Dresdel
Born in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK — May 05 1909• Died Jan 18 1976
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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 Gre…
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Headmistress
Maigret
Sykes
Lady Dorothy
The Pallisers
Marchioness of Auld Reekie
Mystery and Imagination
Countess
The Onedin Line
Lady Lazenby
The Human Jungle
Agnes
The Caesars
Livia
The Fallen Idol
Mrs. Baines
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duchesse de Chevreuse
Armchair Theatre
Olivia Russell
Lizzie Dripping
The Witch
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Pont
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Lady Wilde
The Clouded Yellow
Jess Fenton
Now and Forever
Miss Fox
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Professor Louise Mellroy
The Break
Sarah
The Third Visitor
Steffy Millington
While I Live
Julia Trevelyan
This Was a Woman
Sylvia Russell
The Mill on the Floss
Mrs. Glegg
Mystery of Edwin Drood
The World Owes Me a Living
Eve Heathley
The Adventures of Alice
Red Queen