Paloma Baeza

Paloma Baeza
Occupation(s)	actor, director
Partner	Alex Garland

Paloma Baeza, born 1 May 1975 is a British actress and director.

Biography

Baeza lived in Mexico during her childhood. Her Mexican father and her English mother were hippie musicians. In 1975, when Baeza was 5 months old, her parents married in London and they went to Mexico City. They divorced nine years afterwards. Baeza returned to the United Kingdom with her mother in 1985. She started acting classes and appeared very early in the London theatres and British televised productions. She studied English and performing arts at Bristol Board University. Baeza is the director of two films, the 2006 TV movie The Window and the 2001 short film Watchmen; she co-wrote the latter film with actor Cillian Murphy, who also starred. Her partner is screenwriter/novelist Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine).

Filmography

Acted

• The Passion (TV series): Mary Magdalene
• Mud (TV series): Phillippa
• Look Me in the Eye : Paula
• La Bible: Joseph: Dinah
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court: Princess Katey
• No Bananas: Pink Grant
• The Holding of Wildfell Hall: Rose Markham
• Barnaby Inspector: Meg Moon
• The Odyssey): Melanthe
• Bramwell (TV series): Emmaline
• Far from the Madding Crowd (TV movie): Bathsheba Everdene
• The Knight Out of Pime {TV movie): Sandy
• Frost Inspector (TV series): Rachel Darrow
• Sunburn: Aideen Higgins
• All Forgotten: Mashenka
• Anna Karenina (TV series): Kitty
• The Escapist: Valerie Hopkins
• Rebel Heart (TV miniseries): Ita Feeney
• Waking the Dead (TV series): Anna Maitland
• The Way We Live Now: Hetta Carbury
• The Tony Blair Years: Irene Lloyd
• Essential Poems for Christmas (TV movie): Reader
• Scars (TV movie): Sophia
• Sunshine: Capa's sister

Directed

• Watchmen (short film, 2001)
• The Window (TV movie, 2006)

External links

• Paloma Baeza at IMDb
• PFD.co.uk Baeza's page on her agent's site