Patricia Laffan
Acting • Born 1919-03-19 – Died 2014-03-10
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 credits
Quo Vadis
Movie • 1951
Poppaea
Devil Girl from Mars
Movie • 1954
Nyah
Hidden Homicide
Movie • 1959
Jean Gilson
Rough Shoot
Movie • 1953
Magda
Crooks in Cloisters
Movie • 1964
Lady Florence
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Movie • 2008
Herself
Death in High Heels
Movie • 1947
Magda Doon
Don't Blame the Stork
Movie • 1954
Lilian Angel
Anna Karenina
Movie • 1961
Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
Hangman’s Wharf
Movie • 1950
Rosa Warren
Escape Route
Movie • 1952
Irma Brookes
Caravan
Movie • 1946
Betty (uncredited)
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Movie • 1957
Phyllis Hayes
I See a Dark Stranger
Movie • 1946
Bit Part (uncredited)
23 Paces to Baker Street
Movie • 1956
Miss Alice MacDonald
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 1956
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
TV • 1956
Jane
Maigret
TV • 1960