Patricia Laffan
Born: 1919-03-19 in London, England, UK
Died: 2014-03-10
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2008
- Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies as Herself
1964
- Crooks in Cloisters as Lady Florence
1961
- Anna Karenina as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1960
1959
- Hidden Homicide as Jean Gilson
1957
- Thunder on Sycamore Street as Phyllis Hayes
1956
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Colonel March of Scotland Yard as Jane
- 23 Paces to Baker Street as Miss Alice MacDonald
1954
- Devil Girl from Mars as Nyah
- Don't Blame the Stork as Lilian Angel
1953
- Rough Shoot as Magda
1952
- Escape Route as Irma Brookes
1951
- Quo Vadis as Poppaea
1950
- Hangman’s Wharf as Rosa Warren
1947
- Death in High Heels as Magda Doon
1946
- I See a Dark Stranger as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Caravan as Betty (uncredited)