
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
1951 · as Poppaea

Anna Karenina
1961 · as Betsy, Princess Tverskoy

Devil Girl from Mars
1954 · as Nyah

23 Paces to Baker Street
1956 · as Miss Alice MacDonald

I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · as Bit Part (uncredited)

Rough Shoot
1953 · as Magda

Crooks in Cloisters
1964 · as Lady Florence

Escape Route
1952 · as Irma Brookes

Don't Blame the Stork
1954 · as Lilian Angel

Caravan
1946 · as Betty (uncredited)

Hidden Homicide
1959 · as Jean Gilson

Hangman’s Wharf
1950 · as Rosa Warren

Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
2008 · as Herself

Thunder on Sycamore Street
1957 · as Phyllis Hayes

Death in High Heels
1947 · as Magda Doon