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 20
TV Shows 10
Movies 10
Narcas (2023)
Lizzie Dripping (1973)
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
The Strauss Family (1972)
The Onedin Line (1971)
The Caesars (1968)
Mystery and Imagination (1966)
The Mill on the Floss (1965)
The Break (1963)
The Human Jungle (1963)
Maigret (1960)
Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Now and Forever (1956)
The Third Visitor (1951)
The Clouded Yellow (1950)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
This Was a Woman (1948)
While I Live (1947)
The World Owes Me a Living (1945)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1909-05-05
Deathday1976-01-18 (66 years old)
Birth NameLois Obee
Birth PlaceHornsea, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsLois Obee
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