Patricia Laffan

Birthday: 1919-03-19
Deathday: 2014-03-10
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
1964-01-01 Crooks in Cloisters Lady Florence
1961-11-03 Anna Karenina Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1959-01-01 Hidden Homicide Jean Gilson
1957-10-11 Thunder on Sycamore Street Phyllis Hayes
1956-05-18 23 Paces to Baker Street Miss Alice MacDonald
1954-05-01 Devil Girl from Mars Nyah
1954-01-01 Don't Blame the Stork Lilian Angel
1953-03-30 Rough Shoot Magda
1952-12-01 Escape Route Irma Brookes
1951-11-08 Quo Vadis Poppaea
1950-01-01 Hangman’s Wharf Rosa Warren
1947-07-18 Death in High Heels Magda Doon
1946-07-04 I See a Dark Stranger Bit Part (uncredited)
1946-06-03 Caravan Betty (uncredited)