Patricia Laffan

Patricia Laffan

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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 and published by Fantom Publishing.

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Patricia Laffan was born on Wednesday, 19 March 1919 in London, England, UK. Her full name at birth was Patricia Alice Laffan. She was best known as an actress. Laffan's country of citizenship (nationality) was British. She died on Monday, 10 March 2014 in Chelsea, London, England, UK at the age of 94. Patricia attended high school at Institut français du Royaume-Uni in London. For university, she studied at Webber-Douglas Dramatic School. She was 5' 6" (168 cm) tall with a slim build. She had green eyes and dark brown hair (color). Her zodiac star sign was Pisces.

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Full name at birth
Patricia Alice Laffan
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Claim to fame
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
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Date of birth
19 March 1919
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Place of birth
London, England, UK
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Date of death
10 March 2014
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Age
94 (age at death)
Place of death
Chelsea, London, England, UK
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Cause of death
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
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Stage, film, TV and radio Actress, International fashion impresario
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5' 6" (168 cm)
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Sinister and alluring
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High school
Institut français du Royaume-Uni in London
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Webber-Douglas Dramatic School
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  • She passed away 9 days shy of her 95th birthday. Her death was not announced publicly at the time and was only made public when a researcher uncovered her death certificate 2 and a half years later and published it online.
  • The producer and director of MGM's "Quo Vadis" (1951) selected her for the part of Nero's wife Poppaea after they'd seen a test she had made for a less important part in the film.
  • She said that had she not become an actress she would probably have been a writer. She had a number of short stories published. When she was in France in 1946 she wrote scripts for the Paris radio - she spoke French fluently.
  • In 1954 she listed her Poppaea-like pastimes as 'fast cars and breeding bull terriers'.
  • A clip showing her firing a ray gun in "Devil Girl From Mars" (1954) is often used in commercials and documentaries, such as the TV remote episode of the History Channel series "History's Lost and Found" (early remotes used a beam of light and looked like a ray gun).

Patricia Laffan is known for her role in the film Devil Girl from Mars (1954) as Nyah.

She is also known for her role in the film Quo Vadis (1951) as Poppaea.

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