Sonia Dresdel
Acting

Sonia Dresdel

Born 5 May 1909 · Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK · Died 18 January 1976

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.

Known for

The Fallen Idol
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Clouded Yellow
Lady Caroline Lamb
This Was a Woman
The Break
The Third Visitor
While I Live
The Caesars
Now and Forever
The Pallisers
Lizzie Dripping
Lady Caroline Lamb
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
The Break
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Now and Forever
The Third Visitor
The Clouded Yellow
The Fallen Idol
This Was a Woman
While I Live
The World Owes Me a Living
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