Merle Dandridge
Merle Dandridge was born in Okinawa, Japan. Her father was a member of the US military stationed there, and her mother a local Okinawan. After a childhood spent moving around, Dandridge and her family settled in Bellevue, Nebraska where she graduated from high school. She attended the Theater Conservatory at Roosevelt University in Chicago, performing in a number of theater productions, then moved to New York. Her first appearance in a Broadway show came in 2000, when she played Mary Magdalene in a production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." While she continued to work on stage, Dandridge also made inroads on screen, playing supporting roles on shows like "Angel" (The WB, 1999-2004) and "24" (Fox, 2001-2010; 2014). She landed her first prime-time recurring role in 2011 on "Sons of Anarchy" (FX, 2008-2014) and followed that up with recurring roles on alien/human romantic drama "Star Crossed" (The CW, 2014) and the hospital procedural "The Night Shift" (NBC, 2017). In 2016, she premiered in her first series regular role, playing one of the leads on "Greenleaf" (OWN, 2016-), a drama about a family that runs a Memphis mega-church, produced by Oprah Winfrey.
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Filmography
Movies
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Block Party | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Resurrect | Alice (Character) | - | 2018 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 93% | Station 19 |
Natasha Ross. (Character), Fire Chief Natasha Ross (Guest Star) |
2022-2023 |
No Score Yet | 69% | Truth Be Told | Zarina Killebrew (Character) | 2021 2023 |
96% | 88% | The Last of Us | Marlene (Guest Star) | 2023 |
91% | 61% | The Flight Attendant | Kim (Character) | 2020 2022 |
No Score Yet | 54% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Greenleaf | Grace "Gigi" Greenleaf (Character) | 2016-2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murphy Brown | Diana Macomber (Guest Star) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 77% | The Night Shift | Gwen Gaskin (Guest Star) | 2015-2016 |
9% | 76% | Rosewood | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
91% | 87% | Suits | Leah (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 63% | NCIS: Los Angeles | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
20% | 81% | Stalker | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
78% | 60% | Drop Dead Diva | Nadine Comer (Guest Star) | 2014 |
57% | 74% | Star-Crossed | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 90% | The Mentalist | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 90% | The Newsroom | Maria Guerrero (Guest Star) | 2012-2013 |
85% | 69% | Nikita | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
87% | 90% | Sons of Anarchy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011-2012 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Lie to Me | D.A. Jill Ottinger (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 65% | CSI: Miami | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
87% | 87% | 24 | Kristen Smith (Guest Star) | 2010 |
16% | No Score Yet | The Deep End | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | Marcy Carruthers (Guest Star) | 2003 |