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. Merle Dandridge(1975년생, Okinawa - Japan) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 Resurrect, Blithe Spirit, I'm Paige Wilson가 있으며, 그 외에도 멘탈리스트, NCIS, CSI: 마이애미, 24, 슈츠, NCIS: 로스앤젤레스, 썬즈 오브 아나키, 더 라스트 오브 어스, Tamron Hall, 스테이션 19, 엔젤, 라이 투 미 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 Rent: 30th Anniversary Concert에 출연했다. 2025년 일렉트릭 스테이트에서 News Anchor 역을 맡았다. 2024년 시크릿 레벨에서 Liz Mutton (voice) 역을 맡았다.