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Article: Interview: Saffron Burrows - Not just a pretty face How boring: another model has turned to acting. And she goes out with a top director. Except, this one can act. And is politically aware, having spent her teenage years as a socialist activist. Perhaps that is why Saffron Burrows is causing such a stir
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2000
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Six-foot-nothing in bare feet, slender as a Hokusai bulrush,
pretty as a Fragonard pousseuse, hazel eyes a-gleam with Edinburgh
sunlight, dyed-blonde curls dangling like tendrils of honeysuckle,
huge mouth as soft as an almond croissant, Saffron Burrows is,
basically, the Home Counties' answer to Elle Macpherson. A former
catwalk model turned actress, she radiates the same sharp
independence, even while you're gazing in rapture at her gangling,
willow-wand proportions. And like the Australian super-babe, she
seems to be everywhere right now.
You might have seen her lately playing Karen, a tough guy's moll,
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