
Patricia Laffan
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.
TV Shows(3)
Movies(15)

Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Herself
2008

Crooks in Cloisters
Lady Florence
1964

Anna Karenina
Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1961

Hidden Homicide
Jean Gilson
1959

Thunder on Sycamore Street
Phyllis Hayes
1957

23 Paces to Baker Street
Miss Alice MacDonald
1956

Devil Girl from Mars
Nyah
1954
Don't Blame the Stork
Lilian Angel
1954

Rough Shoot
Magda
1953

Escape Route
Irma Brookes
1952

Quo Vadis
Poppaea
1951

Hangman’s Wharf
Rosa Warren
1950

Death in High Heels
Magda Doon
1947

I See a Dark Stranger
Bit Part (uncredited)
1946

Caravan
Betty (uncredited)
1946


