Patricia Laffan
Actor
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
23 Paces to Baker Street
as Miss Alice MacDonald 1956
Devil Girl from Mars
as Nyah 1954
I See a Dark Stranger
as Bit Part (uncredited) 1946
Crooks in Cloisters
as Lady Florence 1964
Hidden Homicide
as Jean Gilson 1959
Escape Route
as Irma Brookes 1952
Rough Shoot
as Magda 1953
Caravan
as Betty (uncredited) 1946
Anna Karenina
as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy 1961
Hangman’s Wharf
as Rosa Warren 1950
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