Patricia Laffan
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
Series
Maigret
1960
Series
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Jane
1956
Film
Quo Vadis
Poppaea
1951
Film
23 Paces to Baker Street
Miss Alice MacDonald
1956
Film
Crooks in Cloisters
Lady Florence
1964
Film
Devil Girl from Mars
Nyah
1954
Film
Escape Route
Irma Brookes
1952
Film
Anna Karenina
Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1961
Film
Caravan
Betty (uncredited)
1946
Film
I See a Dark Stranger
Bit Part (uncredited)
1946
Film
Rough Shoot
Magda
1953
Film
Hangman’s Wharf
Rosa Warren
1950
Don't Blame the Stork
Lilian Angel
1954
Film
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Self
2008
Film
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Phyllis Hayes
1957
Film
Hidden Homicide
Jean Gilson
1959
Film
Death in High Heels
Magda Doon
1947