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.

Known For

Maigret

The Count of Monte Cristo

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Quo Vadis

23 Paces to Baker Street

Caravan

Anna Karenina

Devil Girl from Mars

All Movies (15)

• Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies2008 · as Herself
• Crooks in Cloisters1964 · as Lady Florence
• Anna Karenina1961 · as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
• Hidden Homicide1959 · as Jean Gilson
• Thunder on Sycamore Street1957 · as Phyllis Hayes
• 23 Paces to Baker Street1956 · as Miss Alice MacDonald
• Devil Girl from Mars1954 · as Nyah
• Don't Blame the Stork1954 · as Lilian Angel
• Rough Shoot1953 · as Magda
• Escape Route1952 · as Irma Brookes
• Quo Vadis1951 · as Poppaea
• Hangman’s Wharf1950 · as Rosa Warren
• Death in High Heels1947 · as Magda Doon
• I See a Dark Stranger1946 · as Bit Part (uncredited)
• Caravan1946 · as Betty (uncredited)

All TV Shows (3)

• Maigret1960
• Colonel March of Scotland Yard1956 · as Jane
• The Count of Monte Cristo1956