Patricia Laffan

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Patricia Laffan

Acting March 19, 1919

London, England, UK

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 fashio…

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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.

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  1. 2008
  2. 1964
    Crooks in Cloisters

    Movie Lady Florence

  3. 1961
    Anna Karenina

    Movie Betsy, Princess Tverskoy

  4. 1960
    Maigret

    TV show

  5. 1959
    Hidden Homicide

    Movie Jean Gilson

  6. 1957
    Thunder on Sycamore Street

    Movie Phyllis Hayes

  7. 1956
    23 Paces to Baker Street

    Movie Miss Alice MacDonald

  8. 1956
  9. 1956
  10. 1954
    Devil Girl from Mars

    Movie Nyah

  11. 1954
    Don't Blame the Stork

    Movie Lilian Angel

  12. 1953
    Rough Shoot

    Movie Magda

  13. 1952
    Escape Route

    Movie Irma Brookes

  14. 1951
    Quo Vadis

    Movie Poppaea

  15. 1950
    Hangman’s Wharf

    Movie Rosa Warren

  16. 1947
    Death in High Heels

    Movie Magda Doon

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  1. 1946
    I See a Dark Stranger

    Movie Bit Part (uncredited)

  2. 1946
    Caravan

    Movie Betty (uncredited)