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Patricia Alice Laffan was an English stage, film, TV 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).
Birth Name
Patricia A. Laffan
Born
Wednesday, 19 March 1919
Died
Monday, 10 March 2014
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies | Herself / Self | 2008 |
| Rembrandt | Marquise | 1969 |
| Call My Bluff | Self | 1965 |
| Crooks in Cloisters | Lady Florence | 1964 |
| Anna Karenina | Betsy, Princess Tverskoy | 1961 |
| Harpers West One | Rosalind Sawyer | 1961 |
| Maigret | Christine Josset | 1959 |
| Hidden Homicide | Jean Gilson | 1959 |
| 23 Paces to Baker Street | Miss Alice MacDonald | 1956 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Duchess of Maastricht / Madame Sablon | 1956 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies | Herself / Self | 2008 |
| Rembrandt | Marquise | 1969 |
| Call My Bluff | Self | 1965 |
| Crooks in Cloisters | Lady Florence | 1964 |
| Anna Karenina | Betsy, Princess Tverskoy | 1961 |
| Harpers West One | Rosalind Sawyer | 1961 |
| Maigret | Christine Josset | 1959 |
| Hidden Homicide | Jean Gilson | 1959 |
| 23 Paces to Baker Street | Miss Alice MacDonald | 1956 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Duchess of Maastricht / Madame Sablon | 1956 |
| Colonel March of Scotland Yard | Jane | 1955 |
| ITV Television Playhouse | Phyllis Hayes | 1955 |
| Devil Girl from Mars | Nyah | 1954 |
| Don't Blame the Stork | Lilian Angel | 1954 |
| I'll Get You | Irma Brookes | 1952 |
| Quo Vadis | Poppaea | 1951 |
| Hangman's Wharf | Rosa Warren | 1950 |
| Who Killed Van Loon? | Peggy Osborn | 1948 |
| Death in High Heels | Magda Doon | 1947 |
| I See a Dark Stranger | Bit Part | 1946 |
| Caravan | Betty | 1946 |
| Notorious Gentleman | Miss Fernandez | 1945 |
| Old Mother Riley at Home | Bit Part | 1945 |
| The Dark Tower | Nurse | 1943 |
