Patricia Laffan
Acting
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
2008Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Herself
1964Crooks in Cloisters
Lady Florence
1961Anna Karenina
Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1959Hidden Homicide
Jean Gilson
1957Thunder on Sycamore Street
Phyllis Hayes
195623 Paces to Baker Street
Miss Alice MacDonald
1954Devil Girl from Mars
Nyah
1953Rough Shoot
Magda
1952Escape Route
Irma Brookes
1951Quo Vadis
Poppaea
1950Hangman’s Wharf
Rosa Warren
1947Death in High Heels
Magda Doon
1946Caravan
Betty (uncredited)
1946I See a Dark Stranger
Bit Part (uncredited)