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The Break

as Sarah

1963
The Trials of Oscar Wilde

as Lady Wilde

1960
The Clouded Yellow

as Jess Fenton

1951
The Fallen Idol

as Mrs. Baines

1948
While I Live

as Julia Trevelyan

1947
Sonia Dresdel Sonia Dresdel

Birthday

1909-05-05

Place of Birth

Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.
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