Merle Dandridge
Born: 1975-05-31 in Okinawa - Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Electric State as News Anchor
2024
- Secret Level as Liz Mutton (voice)
- Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II as Marlene (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
- The Last of Us as Marlene
2022
- Block Party as Crystal Maitland
2020
- The Flight Attendant as Kim Hammond
- Blithe Spirit as Elvira
- The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II as Self
- The Right Girl
2019
- Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- Truth Be Told as Zarina Killebrew
2018
- Station 19 as Natasha Ross
- Resurrect as Alice
2016
- Greenleaf as Grace Greenleaf
- Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall as Herself
2015
- Rosewood as Charlotte
2014
- Stalker as Dean Lisa Miner
- The Night Shift as Gwen Gaskin
- Star-Crossed as Vega
- The Last of Us: One Night Live as Self / Marlene
2012
- The Newsroom as Maria Guerrero
- Perception as Robyn Sherman
2011
- Suits as Leah
- Ringer
- Love Bites as Krista
2010
- Nikita as Zoe
- Matadors as Brooke Comas
- The Deep End as Jennifer Hutchins
2009
- NCIS: Los Angeles as CIA Officer Nicole Borders
2008
- The Mentalist as Lydia Faulk
- Sons of Anarchy as Rita Roosevelt
- Nothing But the Truth as Celia
2007
- I'm Paige Wilson as Gloria
2003
- NCIS as Marcy Carruthers
2002
- CSI: Miami as Stacy Garrett
2001
- 24 as Kristen Smith
1999
- Angel as Lacey Shepard
- Third Watch as Nikki