Paloma Baeza

Paloma Baeza is a Mexican-British actress and director. Born in London in 1975 and raised largely in Mexico, she returned to Britain as a child, took acting classes, and soon worked in London theaters and on British television. She studied English and performing arts at university in Bristol. As an actress she played Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd (1998) and Mary Magdalene in the BBC production The Passion (2008), and she appeared on stage in The Flight Into Egypt (1996) and Navy Pier (2000). Turning to directing, she made the short Watchmen (2001), which she wrote with Cillian Murphy, and the television film The Window (2006). She later studied animation at the National Film and Television School, and her stop-motion graduation short Poles Apart (2017) earned the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation in 2018. She directed part of the Netflix film The House (2022).