Tall, slim, and possessing impossibly large cheekbones, English actress Saffron Burrows first came to the attention of international audiences with her role in Circle of Friends (1995). Burrows, who had made her screen debut two years earlier in Jim_Sheridan's In the Name of the Father, was cast as one of Minnie_Driver's titular circle, an Irish girl who makes the mistake of getting involved with an older, morally suspect Englishman (Colin_Firth).


Thanks to the film's great success, Burrows found herself steadily employed, though not always in films of great quality. In 1999, she earned the label of "star on the rise" thanks to leading roles in four different films. Two of these, Wing_Commander and Deep_Blue_Sea, were big-budget action films, while the others were art-house dramas directed by Mike_Figgis. The first, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, cast Burrows as identical twins separated at birth, while the second, Miss_Julie, was an adaptation of August Strindberg's play that featured Burrows as the title character, a wealthy young woman who enters into a ruinous affair with a servant. Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

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