Acting · London, England, UK · Born March 19, 1919
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.
MovieTruly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
2008
as Herself
MovieCrooks in Cloisters
1964
as Lady Florence
MovieAnna Karenina
1961
as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
TVMaigret
1960
MovieHidden Homicide
1959
as Jean Gilson
MovieThunder on Sycamore Street
1957
as Phyllis Hayes
Movie23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Miss Alice MacDonald
TVColonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
as Jane
TVThe Count of Monte Cristo
1956
MovieDevil Girl from Mars
1954
as Nyah
Don't Blame the Stork
1954
as Lilian Angel
MovieRough Shoot
1953
as Magda
MovieEscape Route
1952
as Irma Brookes
MovieQuo Vadis
1951
as Poppaea
MovieHangman’s Wharf
1950
as Rosa Warren
MovieDeath in High Heels
1947
as Magda Doon
MovieI See a Dark Stranger
1946
as Bit Part (uncredited)
MovieCaravan
1946
as Betty (uncredited)
