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  • MovieWeb - Found Nov. 6, 2008
    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ron Perlman and Saffron Burrows are set to star in Carjacked.
  • Japan Times - Found 20 hours ago
    The Bank Job Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows in 'The Bank Job'
  • Japan Times - Found Nov. 20, 2008
    Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows in 'The Bank Job' © 2007 BANKER STREET INVESTORS, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Director: Roger Donaldson...
  • Entertainment Weekly Online - Found Nov. 20, 2008
    The severely beautiful Saffron Burrows plays some sort of generic New York career woman who receives a terminal cancer diagnosis, is downsized from
  • IGN.com UK - Found Nov. 19, 2008
    ... down the KGB baddies that killed his parents, and that he might actually be developing human feelings toward Dr. Skinner (Saffron Burrows).
  • Observer - Found Nov. 16, 2008
    Obama may have the vision to shift an entire nation. Perhaps dual citizenship is the way to go. ? Saffron Burrows is an actress.
  • MovieWeb - Found Nov. 12, 2008
    I mean, James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard, and Saffron Burrows, and Madchen Amick - they're all just very, very interesting characters.
  • IGN.com - Found Nov. 12, 2008
    - We did get the big reveal that Dr. Skinner (Saffron Burrows) is actually a Systems Analyst for Janus, which makes total sense since someone had to
  • Zap2it.com - Found Nov. 11, 2008
    Before Fake Fed can pull the trigger and get rid of him, Dr. Skinner (Saffron Burrows) shoots first. This, understandably, blows Henry's mind.
  • CD Insight - Found Nov. 12, 2008
    ... a thoroughly engaging almost mythological allegory that is fueled by the exceptional performance of Saffron Burrows and executed with style...
 

Saffron Burrows Biography

Saffron Burrows
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Saffron Burrows

Burrows at the 2008 Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Born Saffron Dominique Burrows
22 October 1972 (1972-10-22) (age 36)
London, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 1993 — present

Saffron Dominique Burrows (born 22 October 1972)1 is an English actress and former fashion model. She is currently starring on the NBC series, My Own Worst Enemy.


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Career

Burrows debuted in the film In the Name of the Father (1993). Her first significant acting role was as an ambitious Irish lass in Circle of Friends (1995), which also featured Chris O'Donnell and Minnie Driver. Subsequently she appeared in Hotel de Love. In 1999, she appeared in the sci-fi Wing Commander (1999), the thriller Deep Blue Sea, and The Loss of Sexual Innocence. The following year she appeared in Miss Julie and Timecode.

In 2001, she had roles in Enigma, and Tempted with Burt Reynolds, Peter Facinelli and Michael Arata. In 2004 she played the part of Andromache in the big-budget movie Troy. In Jan 2005 she created the role of Janey in the world premiere of Earthly Paradise at the Almeida Theatre2 and on 30 October 2005 she appeared on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London in a 24-hour play, Night Sky, alongside Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Navin Chowdhry and David Baddiel.

Burrows played attorney Lorraine Weller on ABC's Boston Legal (Season 4) from 2007-2008. She is now starring on NBC's new series, My Own Worst Enemy with Christian Slater.

In 2008, she appeared in the independent film, The Guitar, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as in a starring role in the heist film The Bank Job.

Burrows starred in Seeing The Heart with Patrick Dempsey, Zac Efron, and Miley Cyrus. She portrayed Carly, Dempsey's wife and Efron and Cyrus's mother. The film was a hit and Burrows earned critical acclaim, portraying the mother of a blind cancer patient dealing with drug abuse.

Personal life

Burrows is a close friend of politician Tony Benn.3 She is also a socialist and has spoken of her admiration for French Socialist politician Ségolène Royal.4 She 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.5

In a 1999 interview with Film Unlimited, Burrows revealed that she had had female lovers.6 For a number of years, she was involved with film director Mike Figgis, and she starred in some of his films, including Miss Julie - one of the first films to experiment with multi-camera views, and Figgis' quad-screen film, Timecode.

Since the ending of that relationship, she has been romantically linked with actress Fiona Shaw.758 Neither actress has publicly confirmed or denied the relationship. The two appeared together in the National Theatre's production of The PowerBook,9 a play based on the novel of the same name by Jeanette Winterson, in which they played lovers.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ [1] from imdb.com
  2. ^ Theater reviews: earthly Paradise
  3. ^ See the numerous references to Burrows in Tony Benn's More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 (Hutchinson 2007).
  4. ^ YouTube - Frost over the World - Saffron Burrows - 28 Mar 08
  5. ^ a b "Saffron Burrows Embraces Lesbian Relationships On-screen and Off", AfterEllen.com, October 2003
  6. ^ "Swimming with sharks", Film Unlimited (via saffron-burrows.com), October 24, 1999
  7. ^ "Mad About Saffron", Sydney Morning Herald, May 15 2004
  8. ^ "A hint of Saffron", The Observer, May 5 2002
  9. ^ "The PowerBook" at the National Theatre

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