Sonia Dresdel
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
The Pallisers
1974
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
Lizzie Dripping
1973
as The Witch
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
as Lady Pont
Sykes
1972
as Lady Dorothy
Sykes
1972
as Agatha Millhampton
The Onedin Line
1971
as Lady Lazenby
Wives and Daughters
1971
as Lady Cumnor
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970
as Professor Louise Mellroy
The Caesars
1968
as Livia
The Man in the Iron Mask
1968
as Duchesse de Chevreuse
City '68
1967
as Mrs. Ralston
Boy Meets Girl
1967
as Principessa di San Fernando
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Countess
North and South
1966
as Mrs. Thornton
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Headmistress
The Mill on the Floss
1965
as Mrs. Glegg
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Annie
The Break
1963
as Sarah
The Human Jungle
1963
as Agnes
Jane Eyre
1963
as Mrs. Reed
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
as Lady Wilde
The Adventures of Alice
1960
as Red Queen
Maigret
1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
Now and Forever
1956
as Miss Fox
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Olivia Russell
Armchair Theatre
1956
David Copperfield
1956
as Miss Betsey Trotwood
The Third Visitor
1951
as Steffy Millington
The Clouded Yellow
1950
as Jess Fenton
The Fallen Idol
1948
as Mrs. Baines
This Was a Woman
1948
as Sylvia Russell
While I Live
1947
as Julia Trevelyan
The World Owes Me a Living
1945
as Eve Heathley