Merle Dandridge
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.
Born: 31 May 1975
Played In
The Electric State
News Anchor
Secret Level
Liz Mutton (voice)
Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II
Marlene (archive footage) (uncredited)
Citadel
Joana
The Last of Us
Marlene
Block Party
Crystal Maitland
The Flight Attendant
Kim Hammond
The Right Girl
Blithe Spirit
Elvira
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Self
Truth Be Told
Zarina Killebrew
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Station 19
Natasha Ross
Resurrect
Alice
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
Herself
Greenleaf
Grace Greenleaf
Rosewood
Charlotte
Stalker
Dean Lisa Miner
The Last of Us: One Night Live
Self / Marlene
The Night Shift
Gwen Gaskin
Star-Crossed
Vega
Perception
Robyn Sherman
The Newsroom
Maria Guerrero
Ringer
Anabel Morris
Suits
Leah
Love Bites
Krista
Nikita
Zoe
The Deep End
Jennifer Hutchins
Matadors
Brooke Comas
NCIS: Los Angeles
CIA Officer Nicole Borders
Lie to Me
D.A. Jill Ottinger
Nothing But the Truth
Celia
The Mentalist
Lydia Faulk
Sons of Anarchy
Rita Roosevelt
I'm Paige Wilson
Gloria
The Comeback
Ridley Macintosh
NCIS
Marcy Carruthers
CSI: Miami
Stacy Garrett
24
Kristen Smith
Angel
Lacey Shepard
Third Watch
Nikki