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.
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Movies (13)
Rent: 30th Anniversary Concert
2026
The Electric State
2025 · News Anchor
Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II
2024 · Marlene (archive footage) (uncredited)
Block Party
2022 · Crystal Maitland
The Right Girl
2020
Blithe Spirit
2020 · Elvira
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020 · Self
Resurrect
2018 · Alice
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
2016 · Herself
The Last of Us: One Night Live
2014 · Self / Marlene
Matadors
2010 · Brooke Comas
Nada más que la verdad
2008 · Celia
I'm Paige Wilson
2007 · Gloria
TV shows (29)
Secret Level
2024 · Liz Mutton (voice)
Citadel
2023 · Joana
The Last of Us
2023 · Marlene
The Flight Attendant
2020 · Kim Hammond
Truth Be Told
2019 · Zarina Killebrew
The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Self - Guest
Estación 19
2018 · Natasha Ross
Greenleaf
2016 · Grace Greenleaf
Rosewood
2015 · Charlotte
Stalker
2014 · Dean Lisa Miner
The Night Shift
2014 · Gwen Gaskin
Star-Crossed
2014 · Vega
Perception
2012 · Robyn Sherman
The Newsroom
2012 · Maria Guerrero
Ringer
2011 · Anabel Morris
La Ley de los Audaces
2011 · Leah
Love Bites
2011 · Krista
Nikita
2010 · Zoe
The Deep End
2010 · Jennifer Hutchins
NCIS: Los Ángeles
2009 · CIA Officer Nicole Borders
Miénteme (Lie to Me)
2009 · D.A. Jill Ottinger
El mentalista
2008 · Lydia Faulk
Hijos de la anarquía
2008 · Rita Roosevelt
The Comeback
2005 · Ridley Macintosh
NCIS
2003 · Marcy Carruthers
CSI: Miami
2002 · Stacy Garrett
24 Horas
2001 · Kristen Smith
Angel
1999 · Lacey Shepard
Third Watch
1999 · Nikki