English actress and model Saffron Burrows was BOTD in 1972. Born in North London to middle-class Socialists, she studied acting in her teens, and began modelling at 15, living between London and Paris. She began appearing in films in the early 1990s, with roles in In the Name of the Father, Circle of Friends and in Dennis Potter’s TV series Karaoke. She was briefly engaged to actor Alan Cumming, who accidentally outed her as bisexual during a press interview. She had a long professional and romantic relationship with director Mike Figgis, appearing in his films One Night Stand, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Miss Julie and Timecode. She had a brief splash in Hollywood, starring in the schlocky but commercially successful shark attack thriller Deep Blue Sea. Returning to theatre, she appeared in a stage adaptation of Jeanette Winterson‘s book The Powerbook, triggering tabloid attention when she and her co-star Fiona Shaw became a couple. Her other notable roles include the sword-and-sandals epic Troy, and recurring roles in TV series Law and Order, Boston Legal and Mozart in the Jungle. She married long-term girlfriend Alison Balian in 2013, with whom she had two children, before separating in 2020. She is currently in a relationship with Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema, her director on Mozart in the Jungle.