Biography

Baeza lived in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 during her childhood. Her Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 father and her English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 mother were hippie

Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...

 musicians. In 1975, when Baeza was 5 months old, her parents married in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 and they went to Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. They divorced nine years afterwards.
Baeza returned to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 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 University. Baeza is the director of two films, the 2006 TV film The Window and the 2001 short film Watchmen; she co-wrote the latter film with actor Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes and general sex appeal....

, who also starred.
Her partner is screenwriter/novelist Alex Garland

Alex Garland

Alexander Medawar "Alex" Garland is a British novelist and screenwriter.-Early life:Garland was born in London, England, the son of psychoanalyst Caroline and political cartoonist Nicholas Garland. His maternal grandparents were zoologist Peter Medawar and author Jean Medawar...

 (The Beach

The Beach

The Beach may refer to:*The Beach , a 1996 novel by Alex Garland**The Beach , a 2000 movie based on the aforementioned novel*The Beaches, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, also commonly known as "The Beach"...

, 28 Days Later

28 Days Later

28 Days Later is an acclaimed 2002 British horror film directed by Danny Boyle. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland, and the film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston...

, Sunshine

Sunshine (2007 film)

Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland about the crew of a spacecraft on a dangerous mission to the Sun. In 2057, with the Earth in peril from the dying Sun, the crew is sent to reignite the Sun with a massive stellar bomb with the mass...

). They have two children, Milo and Eva.

Acted

• The Passion
  The Passion (TV serial)
  The Passion is a television drama serial produced by the BBC and HBO Films in association with Deep Indigo Productions. It tells the story of the last week in the life of Jesus. The serial was first proposed by Peter Fincham in 2006, on the success of the contemporary-set Manchester Passion...
  
  (TV series): Mary Magdalene
• Mud (TV series): Phillippa
• Look Me in the Eye : Paula
• La Bible: Joseph
  Joseph (film)
  The Bible: Joseph is a German/Italian/American television movie from 1995, which tells the story of Joseph from the Old Testament.- Plot :Joseph, a Canaanite Hebrew, is an Egyptian slave to Potiphar, chief of Pharoah's palace guard. When Joseph is placed under the charge of Ednan, Potiphar's...
  
  : Dinah
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court
  A Kid in King Arthur's Court
  A Kid in King Arthur's Court is a 1995 film directed by Michael Gottlieb. It is based on the famous Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, transplanted into the twentieth century....
  
  : Princess Katey
• No Bananas: Pink Grant
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996 miniseries)
  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker...
  
  : Rose Markham
• Barnaby Inspector: Meg Moon
• The Odyssey (TV miniseries)
  The Odyssey (TV miniseries)
  The Odyssey is a 1997 Emmy award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American television miniseries. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the miniseries aired in two-parts beginning on May 18, 1997 on NBC. The series later won the award for "Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special"...
  
  : Melanthe
• Bramwell (TV series): Emmaline
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1998 film)
  Far from the Madding Crowd (1998 film)
  Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1998 drama television film adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel of the same name....
  
  (TV movie): Bathsheba Everdene
• A Knight in Camelot
  A Knight in Camelot
  A Knight in Camelot is a 1998 TV movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Michael York. It was directed by Roger Young, distributed by Disney and is loosely based on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.-Plot:...
  
  (TV movie): Sandy
• A Touch of Frost (TV series): Rachel Darrow
• Sunburn: Aideen Higgins
• All Forgotten: Mashenka
• Anna Karenina (TV series): Kitty
• The Escapist: Valerie Hopkins
• Rebel Heart
  Rebel Heart (film)
  Rebel Heart is a 2001 British television drama miniseries starring James D'Arcy as the fictional Ernie Coyne, an Irish nationalist. It is in four parts, and set during the Irish War of Independence from 1916 until the end of the Civil War. Michael Collins was idolised by Ernie, and was...
  
  (TV miniseries): Ita Feeney
• Waking the Dead (TV series): Anna Maitland
• The Way We Live Now
  The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial)
  The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the novel by Anthony Trollope. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark...
  
  : Hetta Carbury
• The Project: Irene Lloyd
• Essential Poems for Christmas (TV movie): Reader
• Scars (TV movie): Sophia
• Sunshine
  Sunshine (2007 film)
  Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland about the crew of a spacecraft on a dangerous mission to the Sun. In 2057, with the Earth in peril from the dying Sun, the crew is sent to reignite the Sun with a massive stellar bomb with the mass...
  
  : Capa's sister
• Spooks
  Spooks
  Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
  
   (series 7):Elizabeta Starkova

External links

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