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