Patricia Laffan
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.
Known for
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Jane
Maigret
Crooks in Cloisters
Lady Florence
The Count of Monte Cristo
Rough Shoot
Magda
Quo Vadis
Poppaea
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Herself
Hangman’s Wharf
Rosa Warren
I See a Dark Stranger
Bit Part (uncredited)
Caravan
Betty (uncredited)
Escape Route
Irma Brookes
23 Paces to Baker Street
Miss Alice MacDonald
Anna Karenina
Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
Devil Girl from Mars
Nyah
Death in High Heels
Magda Doon
Hidden Homicide
Jean Gilson
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Phyllis Hayes
Don't Blame the Stork
Lilian Angel