profile image

Merle Dandridge

May 31, 1975 (49 years old) in Okinawa - Japan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Known For

poster
The Last of Us
Marlene
poster
NCIS
Marcy Carruthers
poster
NCIS: Los Angeles
CIA Officer Nicole Borders
poster
The Mentalist
Lydia Faulk
poster
Suits
Leah
poster
Angel
Lacey Shepard
poster
Third Watch
Nikki
poster
Sons of Anarchy
Rita Roosevelt
poster
Station 19
Natasha Ross
poster
Secret Level
Liz Mutton (voice)

Credits

Images

image
image
image
image
image