1. Saffron Burrows was born on 22 October 1972 and is a British and American actress who has appeared in films such as Circle of Friends, Wing Commander, Deep Blue Sea, Gangster No 1, Enigma, Troy, Reign Over Me, and The Bank Job.
34 Facts About Saffron Burrows
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Saffron Burrows appeared as Cynthia Taylor on the Prime Video series Mozart in the Jungle and as Dottie Quinn in the Netflix series You.
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Saffron Burrows's mother is a trade unionist and primary school teacher in Hackney and her father is an architect and teacher.
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Saffron Burrows enrolled in acting classes at the Anna Scher Theatre in Islington when she was 11.
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Saffron Burrows had a successful modelling career after she was discovered at age 15 in Covent Garden by fashion photographer Beth Boldt.
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Saffron Burrows found the modelling world's "obsession with the ideal of the body" troubling.
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Saffron Burrows made her film debut in 1993 with a small role in Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father.
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Saffron Burrows starred for Figgis again alongside Stellan Skarsgard in Timecode, a split-screen digital experimental film shot in a single take with no edits.
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Saffron Burrows followed it with Gangster No 1, starring Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany and David Thewlis.
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Saffron Burrows next co-starred with Kate Winslet and Dougray Scott in Michael Apted's 1940s drama Enigma and starred in Tempted, an improvised thriller set in New Orleans, with Burt Reynolds and Peter Facinelli.
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Saffron Burrows had a cameo in Frida, Hayek's 2002 biopic of artist Frida Kahlo.
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Saffron Burrows performed in Spanish in The Galindez File, a film written by Spanish novelist Vazquez Montalban, about a woman seeking the truth about the disappearance of a critic of the Dominican dictator Trujillo.
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Saffron Burrows dedicated herself to stage work in the early 2000s.
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Saffron Burrows appeared at the Royal National Theatre in Jeanette Winterson's The Powerbook, directed by Deborah Warner; the play went on tour, visiting the Theatre National Du Chaillot in Paris and the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
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In 2006, Saffron Burrows was the female lead in the New Zealand thriller Perfect Creature, appeared in Hal Hartley's film Fay Grim, and co-starred in Klimt, Chilean director Raoul Ruiz' cinematic portrait of Gustav Klimt.
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Saffron Burrows played opposite John Malkovich as the artist's lover, a woman of many personalities and nationalities.
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Saffron Burrows then appeared in Mike Binder's film Reign Over Me with Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler.
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Saffron Burrows had lead roles in the Indian thriller Broken Thread and in director Peter Howitt's drama Dangerous Parking.
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Saffron Burrows starred in the NBC series My Own Worst Enemy in 2008.
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Also in 2008, Saffron Burrows starred in the independent film The Guitar as a woman who suffers several life setbacks all at once, including a cancer diagnosis and bankruptcy, and survives them all.
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Saffron Burrows had a starring role in Roger Donaldson's heist film The Bank Job, and appeared opposite Kevin Spacey in Jonas Pate's Shrink.
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Saffron Burrows contributed to an Actors Come Clean for Congo video for the Enough Project's campaign in support of conflict mineral issues.
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Saffron Burrows played agent Victoria Hand in a recurring role.
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Saffron Burrows starred in the Amazon Video series Mozart in the Jungle as Cynthia Taylor, a cellist with the New York Symphony.
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In 2019, Saffron Burrows starred in the recurring role of Dottie Quinn on the second season of the Netflix thriller You.
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Saffron Burrows reprised her role in the third season, which was released in October 2021.
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Saffron Burrows has written diaries, book reviews and newspaper and magazine articles for The Guardian, The Independent, and The Times and the New Statesman.
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Saffron Burrows is bisexual, and said that she "prefers the company of women".
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Saffron Burrows was engaged to actor Alan Cumming in the 1990s and dated director Mike Figgis for five years until 2002.
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Saffron Burrows was previously in a relationship with actress Fiona Shaw.
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Saffron Burrows married writer Alison Balian, her girlfriend of six years, in August 2013.
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Saffron Burrows gave birth to their son in 2012 and their daughter in 2017.
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Saffron Burrows has expressed sympathy for European-style social democracies and for French Socialist politician Segolene Royal.
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Saffron Burrows joined an anti-racism group when she was 11 years old and went on to become the Vice President of the National Civil Rights Movement.