Merle Dandridge
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 31, 1975 (age 51)
- Birthplace
- Okinawa - Japan
Biography
Merle Dandridge is a Japanese-American actress who was born in Okinawa, Japan. Dandridge is primarily a stage actress, but has had several roles in television. She has gained a wider audience as the voice of Alyx Vance in the award-winning action game Half-Life 2 and its sequels, Episode One, Episode Two. Her father was an African-American US serviceman from Memphis and her mother was a local Okinawan of Korean and Japanese descent. As well as Okinawa, Dandridge has lived in Sacramento, California, at Beale Air Force Base, and later at Offutt Air Force Base (home to the then-Strategic Air Command) in Bellevue, Nebraska, where she spent the majority of her childhood. She attended Papillion La Vista High School and participated in the play production class and theater department there. She then attended the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University (currently called the Chicago College of Performing Arts) with a scholarship that she earned at the International Thespian Festival.
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Filmography
Rent: 30th Anniversary Concert
Movie
The Electric State
Movie · as News Anchor
Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II
Movie · as Marlene (archive footage) (uncredited)
Secret Level
TV · as Liz Mutton (voice) · 1 ep
The Last of Us
TV · as Marlene · 2 eps
Citadel
TV · as Joana · 7 eps
Block Party
Movie · as Crystal Maitland
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Movie · as Self
Blithe Spirit
Movie · as Elvira
The Right Girl
Movie
The Flight Attendant
TV · as Kim Hammond · 8 eps
The Tamron Hall Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Truth Be Told
TV · as Zarina Killebrew · 20 eps
Resurrect
Movie · as Alice
Station 19
TV · as Natasha Ross · 37 eps
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
Movie · as Herself
Greenleaf
TV · as Grace Greenleaf · 60 eps
Rosewood
TV · as Charlotte · 1 ep
The Last of Us: One Night Live
Movie · as Self / Marlene
Star-Crossed
TV · as Vega · 7 eps
Stalker
TV · as Dean Lisa Miner · 1 ep
The Night Shift
TV · as Gwen Gaskin · 1 ep
Perception
TV · as Robyn Sherman · 1 ep
The Newsroom
TV · as Maria Guerrero · 2 eps
Ringer
TV · as Anabel Morris · 1 ep
Suits
TV · as Leah · 1 ep
Love Bites
TV · as Krista · 1 ep
Matadors
Movie · as Brooke Comas
Nikita
TV · as Zoe · 1 ep
The Deep End
TV · as Jennifer Hutchins · 1 ep
NCIS: Los Angeles
TV · as CIA Officer Nicole Borders · 1 ep
Lie to Me
TV · as D.A. Jill Ottinger · 1 ep
Nothing but the Truth
Movie · as Celia
The Mentalist
TV · as Lydia Faulk · 1 ep
Sons of Anarchy
TV · as Rita Roosevelt · 6 eps
I'm Paige Wilson
Movie · as Gloria
The Comeback
TV · as Ridley Macintosh · 1 ep
NCIS
TV · as Marcy Carruthers · 1 ep
CSI: Miami
TV · as Stacy Garrett · 1 ep
24
TV · as Kristen Smith · 1 ep
Angel
TV · as Lacey Shepard · 1 ep
Third Watch
TV · as Nikki · 1 ep