Patricia Laffan
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Quo Vadis
as Poppaea
1951
Devil Girl from Mars
as Nyah
1954
Hidden Homicide
as Jean Gilson
1959
Rough Shoot
as Magda
1953
Crooks in Cloisters
as Lady Florence
1964
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
as Herself
2008
Death in High Heels
as Magda Doon
1947
Don't Blame the Stork
as Lilian Angel
1954
Anna Karenina
as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1961
Hangman’s Wharf
as Rosa Warren
1950
Escape Route
as Irma Brookes
1952
Caravan
as Betty (uncredited)
1946
Thunder on Sycamore Street
as Phyllis Hayes
1957
I See a Dark Stranger
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1946
23 Paces to Baker Street
as Miss Alice MacDonald
1956
