Cast & creator
Merle Dandridge
Best known for The Mentalist, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles
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.
Also known as: Мерл Дэндридж
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film credits
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television credits
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1999–2025 · acting roles
7.0
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (41)
Showing 41 of 41 credits
The Mentalist
Lydia Faulk
2008
NCIS
Marcy Carruthers
2003
NCIS: Los Angeles
CIA Officer Nicole Borders
2009
CSI: Miami
Stacy Garrett
2002
24
Kristen Smith
2001
Suits
Leah
2011
Sons of Anarchy
Rita Roosevelt
2008
Third Watch
Nikki
1999
The Tamron Hall Show
Self - Guest
2019
Angel
Lacey Shepard
1999
Station 19
Natasha Ross
2018
The Last of Us
Marlene
2023
Lie to Me
D.A. Jill Ottinger
2009
Perception
Robyn Sherman
2012
Nikita
Zoe
2010
Rosewood
Charlotte
2015
The Newsroom
Maria Guerrero
2012
Greenleaf
Grace Greenleaf
2016
Citadel
Joana
2023
Truth Be Told
Zarina Killebrew
2019
The Comeback
Ridley Macintosh
2005
The Flight Attendant
Kim Hammond
2020
Secret Level
Liz Mutton (voice)
2024
The Night Shift
Gwen Gaskin
2014
The Electric State
News Anchor
2025
Ringer
Anabel Morris
2011
Star-Crossed
Vega
2014
Love Bites
Krista
2011
Stalker
Dean Lisa Miner
2014
The Deep End
Jennifer Hutchins
2010
Nothing But the Truth
Celia
2008
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Self
2020
Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II
Marlene (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Resurrect
Alice
2018Matadors
Brooke Comas
2010I'm Paige Wilson
Gloria
2007
The Last of Us: One Night Live
Self / Marlene
2014
Block Party
Crystal Maitland
2022
Blithe Spirit
Elvira
2020
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
Herself
2016