Patricia Laffan
Acting
Biography
Patricia Alice Laffan (19 March 1919 – 10 March 2014) was an English stage, film, television and radio actress, and also, after her retirement from acting, an international fashion impresario. She was five feet, six inches tall, with dark reddish-brown hair and green eyes. She is best known for her film roles as the Empress Poppaea in Quo Vadis (1951) and the alien Nyah in Devil Girl from Mars (1954). Her biography, Devil Girl Remembered, was written by Andrew Ross in 2021.
Filmography 18
Movies (15)
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies2008Herself
Crooks in Cloisters1964Lady Florence
Anna Karenina1961Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
Hidden Homicide1959Jean Gilson
Thunder on Sycamore Street1957Phyllis Hayes
23 Paces to Baker Street1956Miss Alice MacDonald
Devil Girl from Mars1954Nyah- Don't Blame the Stork1954Lilian Angel
Rough Shoot1953Magda
Escape Route1952Irma Brookes
Quo Vadis1951Poppaea
Hangman’s Wharf1950Rosa Warren
Death in High Heels1947Magda Doon
I See a Dark Stranger1946Bit Part (uncredited)
Caravan1946Betty (uncredited)
Shows (3)
Maigret1960
Colonel March of Scotland Yard1956Jane
The Count of Monte Cristo1956