
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.
Awards & recognition
- British Academy Games Award — Performer · 2016
- British Academy Games Award — Performer · 2016 · nominated
Filmography32 titles

The Last of Us

The Mentalist

Sons of Anarchy

Station 19

Suits

The Newsroom

Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall

Lie to Me

Angel

Third Watch

24

CSI: Miami

NCIS

The Night Shift

NCIS: Los Angeles

Secret Level

The Comeback

Nikita

Perception

The Flight Attendant

Greenleaf

Truth Be Told

Nothing But the Truth

Citadel

Star-Crossed

The Electric State

Rosewood

Love Bites

Block Party

Ringer

The Deep End

Tamron Hall