Saffron Domini Burrows was born on 22 October 1972 and is an English-American actress and model 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.
36 Facts About Saffron Burrows
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Saffron Burrows appeared as Cynthia Taylor on the Amazon Video series Mozart in the Jungle and as Dottie Quinn in the Netflix series You.
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Saffron Burrows attended William Tyndale Primary School in Islington and then Stoke Newington School.
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Saffron Burrows enrolled in acting classes at the Anna Scher Theatre 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 in the BBC production of Dennis Potter's Karaoke, and in Hotel de Love, Lovelife, Nevada, One Night Stand and The Matchmaker.
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Saffron Burrows appeared in the thriller film Deep Blue Sea, and had the title role in a film of Miss Julie, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Saffron Burrows followed it with Gangster No 1 with Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany and David Thewlis.
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Saffron Burrows co-starred with Kate Winslet and Dougray Scott in Michael Apted's 1940s drama Enigma.
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Saffron Burrows starred in Tempted, an improvised thriller set in New Orleans, with Burt Reynolds and Peter Facinelli.
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Saffron Burrows was directed by Deborah Warner at the Royal National Theatre in Jeanette Winterson's The Powerbook.
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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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In 2006, Saffron Burrows was the female lead in the New Zealand thriller Perfect Creature.
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Onstage in 2006, Saffron Burrows starred opposite David Schwimmer in Neil Labute's world premiere of Some Girl at the Gielgud theatre, London.
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Saffron Burrows then starred opposite Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler in Mike Binder's Reign Over Me.
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Saffron Burrows played the female lead roles in the Indian film thriller Broken Thread, and in Dangerous Parking, a drama directed by Peter Howitt.
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On television, Saffron Burrows played attorney Lorraine Weller on ABC's Boston Legal from 2007 to 2008.
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Saffron Burrows starred on NBC's 2008 series, My Own Worst Enemy.
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In 2008, Saffron Burrows starred in the independent film The Guitar, Amy Redford's directorial debut, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Saffron Burrows played opposite Kevin Spacey in Jonas Pate's Shrink.
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Saffron Burrows has contributed to the Actors Come Clean for Congo video for the Raise Hope for Congo campaign, a campaign of the Enough Project, in support of the conflict mineral issue.
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In 2012, Saffron Burrows performed opposite Rob Lowe in the political comedy Knife Fight.
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Saffron Burrows has participated in the "24 Hour Plays" in London, New York, and Los Angeles.
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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 released in October 2021.
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Saffron Burrows starred in the Amazon Video show Mozart in the Jungle as Cynthia Taylor, a cellist with the New York Symphony.
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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 has 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 she went on to become the Vice President of the National Civil Rights Movement.