Saffron Burrows (born 22 October 1972)[1] is a British and American actress who has appeared in films such as Circle of Friends, Wing Commander, Deep Blue Sea, Gangster No.

On the small screen she starred as Lorraine Weller on Boston Legal, Dr. Norah Skinner on My Own Worst Enemy, Detective Serena Stevens on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Victoria Hand on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. She appeared as Cynthia Taylor on the Prime Video series Mozart in the Jungle and as Dottie Quinn in the Netflix series You.

[9] In 1996 she starred in the BBC production of Dennis Potter's Karaoke[10] and in Hotel de Love; the next year she was seen in Lovelife, Nevada, The Matchmaker and Mike Figgis' One Night Stand.

[13] She starred for Figgis again alongside Stellan Skarsgård in Timecode (2000), a split-screen digital experimental film shot in a single take with no edits.

[11] She next co-starred with Kate Winslet and Dougray Scott in Michael Apted's 1940s drama Enigma[14][15] and starred in Tempted, an improvised thriller set in New Orleans, with Burt Reynolds and Peter Facinelli.

[16] Figgis' ensemble feature Hotel followed, reuniting Burrows with colleagues from Timecode including Salma Hayek and Danny Huston on location in Venice, where she played the Duchess of Malfi.

[18] The play centered on the love triangle of Janey, her husband William Morris (the writer and proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement), and the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

[19] London theatre critic Nicholas De Jongh said of her performance: "Burrows takes to the stage like a swan to water... She deserves no end of watching.

"[20] On 30 October 2005, she appeared on stage at the Old Vic theatre in London in a rehearsed reading of the 24-hour play Night Sky, alongside Christopher Eccleston.

[11] Onstage in 2006, she starred opposite David Schwimmer in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) at the Gielgud Theatre, London.

Burrows also had lead roles in the Indian thriller Broken Thread and in director Peter Howitt's drama Dangerous Parking.

Also in 2008, 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.

[25] She also had a starring role in Roger Donaldson's heist film The Bank Job,[26] and appeared opposite Kevin Spacey in Jonas Pate's Shrink.