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