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

• 1964Crooks in Cloisters — Lady Florence
• 1961Anna Karenina — Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
• Maigret
• 1959Hidden Homicide — Jean Gilson
• 1957Thunder on Sycamore Street — Phyllis Hayes
• 195623 Paces to Baker Street — Miss Alice MacDonald
• Colonel March of Scotland Yard — Jane
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• 1954Devil Girl from Mars — Nyah
• 1954Don't Blame the Stork — Lilian Angel
• 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)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2008Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies — Self