
Acting · 94 years old
London, England, UK
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.

Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Jane

Maigret

Quo Vadis
Poppaea

23 Paces to Baker Street
Miss Alice MacDonald

Anna Karenina
Betsy, Princess Tverskoy

I See a Dark Stranger
Bit Part (uncredited)

Rough Shoot
Magda

Caravan
Betty (uncredited)

Devil Girl from Mars
Nyah

Escape Route
Irma Brookes

Crooks in Cloisters
Lady Florence

Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Herself

Hangman’s Wharf
Rosa Warren

Hidden Homicide
Jean Gilson

The Count of Monte Cristo

Death in High Heels
Magda Doon

Thunder on Sycamore Street
Phyllis Hayes