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Merle Dandridge
Okinawa - Japan
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 wi…
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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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2025
The Electric State
Movie News Anchor
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2024
Secret Level
TV show Liz Mutton (voice)
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2024
Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II
Movie Marlene (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
Citadel
TV show Joana
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2023
The Last of Us
TV show Marlene
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2022
Block Party
Movie Crystal Maitland
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2020
The Flight Attendant
TV show Kim Hammond
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2020
The Right Girl
Movie
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2020
Blithe Spirit
Movie Elvira
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2020
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Movie Self
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2019
Truth Be Told
TV show Zarina Killebrew
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
Station 19
TV show Natasha Ross
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2018
Resurrect
Movie Alice
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2016
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
Movie Herself
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2016
Greenleaf
TV show Grace Greenleaf
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2015
Rosewood
TV show Charlotte
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2014
Stalker
TV show Dean Lisa Miner
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2014
The Last of Us: One Night Live
Movie Self / Marlene
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2014
The Night Shift
TV show Gwen Gaskin
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2014
Star-Crossed
TV show Vega
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2012
Perception
TV show Robyn Sherman
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2012
The Newsroom
TV show Maria Guerrero
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2011
Ringer
TV show Anabel Morris
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2011
Suits
TV show Leah
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2011
Love Bites
TV show Krista
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2010
Nikita
TV show Zoe
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2010
The Deep End
TV show Jennifer Hutchins
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2010
Matadors
Movie Brooke Comas
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2009
NCIS: Los Angeles
TV show CIA Officer Nicole Borders
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2009
Lie to Me
TV show D.A. Jill Ottinger
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2008
Nothing But the Truth
Movie Celia
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2008
The Mentalist
TV show Lydia Faulk
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2008
Sons of Anarchy
TV show Rita Roosevelt
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2007
I'm Paige Wilson
Movie Gloria
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2005
The Comeback
TV show Ridley Macintosh
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2003
NCIS
TV show Marcy Carruthers
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2002
CSI: Miami
TV show Stacy Garrett
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2001
24
TV show Kristen Smith
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1999
Angel
TV show Lacey Shepard
