Sonia Dresdel
Acting
Born: 1909-05-05 · Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died: 1976-01-18
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
🎬 Movies (12)
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
Lady Pont
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970
Professor Louise Mellroy
The Break
1963
Sarah
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
Lady Wilde
The Adventures of Alice
1960
Red Queen
Now and Forever
1956
Miss Fox
The Third Visitor
1951
Steffy Millington
The Clouded Yellow
1950
Jess Fenton
The Fallen Idol
1948
Mrs. Baines
This Was a Woman
1948
Sylvia Russell
While I Live
1947
Julia Trevelyan
The World Owes Me a Living
1945
Eve Heathley
📺 TV Shows (15)
The Pallisers
1974
Marchioness of Auld Reekie
Lizzie Dripping
1973
The Witch
Sykes
1972
Agatha Millhampton
The Onedin Line
1971
Lady Lazenby
The Caesars
1968
Livia
The Man in the Iron Mask
1968
Duchesse de Chevreuse
Boy Meets Girl
1967
Principessa di San Fernando
Mystery and Imagination
1966
Countess
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Headmistress
The Mill on the Floss
1965
Mrs. Glegg
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Annie
The Human Jungle
1963
Agnes
Maigret
1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
Armchair Theatre
1956