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