
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2008
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies as Herself
1964Crooks in Cloisters as Lady Florence
1961Anna Karenina as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1960Maigret
1959Hidden Homicide as Jean Gilson
1957Thunder on Sycamore Street as Phyllis Hayes
195623 Paces to Baker Street as Miss Alice MacDonald
1956Colonel March of Scotland Yard as Jane
1956The Count of Monte Cristo
1954Devil Girl from Mars as Nyah
1954Don't Blame the Stork as Lilian Angel
1953Rough Shoot as Magda
1952Escape Route as Irma Brookes
1951Quo Vadis as Poppaea
1950Hangman’s Wharf as Rosa Warren
1947Death in High Heels as Magda Doon
1946I See a Dark Stranger as Bit Part (uncredited)
1946Caravan as Betty (uncredited)









