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