Patricia Laffan

Personal Info

Birthday

March 19, 1919

Day of Death

2014-03-10

(94 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Also Known As

Patricia Alice Laffan

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

Don't Blame the Stork

Escape Route

Quo Vadis

Anna Karenina

Caravan

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

23 Paces to Baker Street

Rough Shoot

Filmography

2008
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
as Herself
1964
Crooks in Cloisters
as Lady Florence
1961
Anna Karenina
as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1959
Hidden Homicide
as Jean Gilson
1957
Thunder on Sycamore Street
as Phyllis Hayes
1956
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)