Sonia Dresdel
- Recitazione
- 5 maggio 1909 · Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
- 18 gennaio 1976
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- La dinastia del potere · Marchioness of Auld Reekie
- Lizzie Dripping · The Witch
- Peccato d'amore · Lady Pont
- Sykes · Lady Dorothy, Agatha Millhampton
- Wives and Daughters · Lady Cumnor
- The Onedin Line · Lady Lazenby
- Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary · Professor Louise Mellroy
- The Caesars · Livia
- The Man in the Iron Mask · Duchesse de Chevreuse
- City '68 · Mrs. Ralston
- Boy Meets Girl · Principessa di San Fernando
- North and South · Mrs. Thornton
- Mystery and Imagination · Countess
- BBC Play of the Month · Headmistress
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Annie
- The Mill on the Floss · Mrs. Glegg
- The Break · Sarah
- Jane Eyre · Mrs. Reed
- The Human Jungle · Agnes
- The Adventures of Alice · Red Queen
- Maigret
- Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Il garofano verde · Lady Wilde
- David Copperfield · Miss Betsey Trotwood
- Quando l'amore è poesia · Miss Fox
- Armchair Theatre · Olivia Russell
- The Third Visitor · Steffy Millington
- Cielo tempestoso · Jess Fenton
- Idolo infranto · Mrs. Baines
- This Was a Woman · Sylvia Russell
- While I Live · Julia Trevelyan
- The World Owes Me a Living · Eve Heathley