Saffron Burrows

Biography

Saffron Domini Burrows is an English-American actress and former model. Burrows 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. On the small screen she’s starred as Lorraine Weller on Boston Legal, Dr. Norah Skinner on My Own Worst Enemy, Detective Serena Stevens on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She appears as Cynthia Taylor on Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle.

Burrows is openly bisexual, and has said that she “prefers the company of women”. She was previously engaged to actor Alan Cumming in the 1990s, and dated director Mike Figgis for five years until 2002. Burrows married writer Alison Balian, her girlfriend of six years, in August 2013. Burrows gave birth to their son in 2012, and their daughter Daisy Alice Winnie in January 2017