Paloma Baeza

Acting

Paloma Baeza

Born

1975-05-01 (51)

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Paloma Baeza is a British actress and director of English and Mexican heritage.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

Sunshine poster
7.0

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

Sunshine

2007

All Forgotten poster
4.3

A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.

All Forgotten

2001

The Escapist poster
5.8

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.

The Escapist

2002

No artwork available
NR

The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Their journey takes us deep into the world of New Labour headquarters in Millbank, and later Downing Street, exposing the machinations behind the party's transformation into the sharp, media-aware voice of professional, middle-England.

The Project

2002

1990s · 7 titles

Joseph poster
8.3

Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead.

Joseph

1995

A Kid in King Arthur's Court poster
5.0

A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an earthquake. Once there, he learns he was summoned by the wizard Merlin, who needs Calvin to save Camelot. Using dazzling modern inventions, can Calvin help King Arthur retain his crown and thwart the evil Lord Belasco?

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

1995

A Knight in Camelot poster
5.5

Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.

A Knight in Camelot

1998

Far from the Madding Crowd poster
6.2

This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her impulsive nature pushes her into a web of deceit and destruction.

Far from the Madding Crowd

1998

Sunburn poster
6.2

Davin McDerby is a handsome, irresponsible slacker who arrives in Montauk Long Island for a summer of fun. He has no intention of working too hard and every intention of enjoying himself as much as possible while simultaneously escaping the pressing problems that await him back home in Ireland. Over a summer of car-jacking, pool-hopping, and tequila-drinking Davin and his new found friends discover that they have affected one another causing them to re-evaluate their lives.

Sunburn

1999

Look Me in the Eye poster
4.0

Psychological thriller about an obsessive love affair between Ruth, a recently married school teacher, and Thomas, a brilliant photographer.

Look Me in the Eye

1994

No artwork available
NR

Whitechapel works as a slave on a Virginia plantation; he has been given the name of his owner, Mr Whitechapel. The plantation's overseer is the violent and hard-drinking Sanders, embittered by the death of his wife. When Whitechapel's beautiful young bride attracts Sanders's attention, the stage is set for a tragedy that spans generations.

The Longest Memory

1997

Series credits

Spooks poster
7.7

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Spooks

2002

A Touch of Frost poster
7.6

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

A Touch of Frost

1992

Waking the Dead poster
7.2

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Waking the Dead

2001

Screen Two poster
7.1

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Screen Two

1985

The Odyssey poster
7.3

Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of nature, seductive enchantresses, and even journey into the bowels of the Underworld.

The Odyssey

1997

The Vanishing Man poster
7.0

The Vanishing Man is a 1998 British television programme created by Anthony Horowitz for ITV, and starring Neil Morrissey as Nick Cameron, wrongly imprisoned for smuggling plutonium, who used it for medical research – it turns him invisible when in contact with water. Having escaped from prison, his powers are then utilised by a government agency. The six-episode series is a sequel to the 1997 TV movie of the same name.

The Vanishing Man

1997

The Passion poster
5.3

The Passion is a television drama serial that tells the story of the last week in the life of Jesus.

The Passion

2008

The Way We Live Now poster
7.7

Anthony Trollope’s epic tale of Victorian power and corruption, set in the 1870s. Within weeks of his arrival in London, financier Augustus Melmotte announces a railway is to be built from Salt Lake City to the Gulf of Mexico and entices distinguished members of England's land-rich, cash-poor aristocracy into his web. Many are eager to sell their ailing land parcels to afford moving to London proper and naïve speculators are all lured in with promises of an instant fortune.

The Way We Live Now

2001

Far from the Madding Crowd poster
8.0

This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her impulsive nature pushes her into a web of deceit and destruction.

Far from the Madding Crowd

1998

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall poster
7.5

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by the BBC. A mysterious young woman arrives at Wildfell Hall, an old house of the Elizabethan era, with a young son. She is determined to lead an independent existence, but her new neighbours do not want to leave her alone. Only one of them, a young farmer, succeeds in finding her secrets.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1996

Anna Karenina poster
6.8

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. A four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.

Anna Karenina

2000

Rebel Heart poster
7.3

The move towards independence in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising until the 1922 civil war is seen through the eyes of a naive idealistic young man

Rebel Heart

2001

No Bananas poster
7.7

This 10-episode television miniseries, set in England during World War II, tells the story of two families, the wealthy Hamiltons and the working-class Slaters, now united through marriage.

No Bananas

1996

Mud poster
7.5

Mud was a 1994 CBBC television show, starring Russell Brand, Brooke Kinsella, Russell Tovey in their early appearances and a teddy bear called Steve. A group of disadvantaged children are taken by their social worker to an outdoor activity centre to escape their problems.

Mud

1994

The Project poster
7.0

The Project is a BBC two-part 2002 television drama, directed by Peter Kosminsky from a script by Leigh Jackson. The series presented a fictionalised account, seen through the experiences of three young activists, of developments in the Labour Party and its progress into Blairism, from the party's failure to win the 1992 General Election through its election victory in 1997 to its re-election victory in 2001.

The Project

2002

Behind the camera

The House poster
7.0

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

The House

2022

Poles Apart poster
8.7

In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her friend.

Poles Apart

2017

Poles Apart poster
8.7

In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her friend.

Poles Apart

2017

Three Hares poster
NR

A mystical origin story of the ancient three hares, who must remind mankind to respect the earth in order to protect their future.

Three Hares

2024

No artwork available
8.0

You know the odds. But not the truth.

The Odds

2009

Watchmen poster
7.3

This brisk comedy of errors, penned by two-time onscreen lovers Paloma Baeza and Cillian Murphy, stakes out multiple perspectives on a series of bumbling petty crimes. Late in the evening, friends Phil (Cillian Murphy) and Ray (Barry Ward) look out of their window as two unidentified men hid from the police outside the door of a neighboring house. They cannot resist the temptation to find out what they are hiding...

Watchmen

2001

Watchmen poster
7.3

This brisk comedy of errors, penned by two-time onscreen lovers Paloma Baeza and Cillian Murphy, stakes out multiple perspectives on a series of bumbling petty crimes. Late in the evening, friends Phil (Cillian Murphy) and Ray (Barry Ward) look out of their window as two unidentified men hid from the police outside the door of a neighboring house. They cannot resist the temptation to find out what they are hiding...

Watchmen

2001

No artwork available
NR

Children's toys are brought to life by a Victorian-era toy-maker in his home; a present day mother and daughter move in and find their world upended.

The Toymaker's Secret

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NR

This film will explore the reasons why the colourful and passionate Kahlo still captivates 65 years after her death. Featuring key moments from her life combined with a dramatized depiction of her vivid imagination, the film will depict Frida Kahlo’s life in a sensitive and celebratory way and give a concise, compelling and accurate representation of her development as an artist and a woman.

Las Dos Fridas

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