Paloma - whose Christian name is the Spanish for 'Dove' - was born on May 1st 1975 in London. Her parents, an English mother and Mexican father were hippie musicians and, when Paloma was a baby they moved to live in Mexico City, where she stayed until she was nine and the parents separated. She returned to England with her mother, began acting in ...
Born in London of Anglo-Mexican parentage, she spent her childhood growing up in Mexico.
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She collaborated on a short film with actor Cillian Murphy who has starred as her love interest in The Way We Live Now (2001) and the independent film Sunburn (1999), and as her brother in Sunshine (2007).
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Her real-life partner is Alex Garland the writer who wrote the novel on which The Beach (2000) is based, and the screenplay for 28 Days Later... (2002). They have two children together: a son named Milo and a daughter named Eva.
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Lived in Mexico as a child.
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Is half Mexican.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
MI-5
2008
TV Series
Elizaveta Starkova
The Passion
2008
TV Mini-Series
Mary Magdalene
Sunshine
2007
Capa's Sister
Scars
2006/I
TV Movie
Sophia
The Project
2002
TV Movie
Irene Lloyd
The Escapist
2002
Valerie Hopkins
The Way We Live Now
2001
TV Mini-Series
Hetta Carbury
Lover's Prayer
2001
Mashenka
Waking the Dead
2001
TV Series
Anna Maitland
Rebel Heart
2001
TV Mini-Series
Ita Feeney
That Sinking Feeling
2000
Short
Girl
Anna Karenina
2000
TV Mini-Series
Kitty
Sunburn
1999
Aideen Higgins
A Touch of Frost
1999
TV Series
Rachel Darrow
Like Clockwork
1999
Short
Helen
A Knight in Camelot
1998
TV Movie
Sandy
Far from the Madding Crowd
1998
TV Movie
Bathsheba Everdene
Bramwell
1997
TV Mini-Series
Emmaline O'Neill
The Odyssey
1997
TV Series
Melanthe
The Longest Memory
1997
TV Movie
Lydia
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
TV Mini-Series
Rose Markham
No Bananas
1996
TV Mini-Series
Rose Grant
King Arthur's Court
1995
Princess Katey
Joseph
1995
TV Movie
Dinah
Screen Two
1994
TV Series
Paula
Mud
1994
TV Series
Phillipa
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Odds
2009
Short
Coming Up
2006
TV Series 1 episode
Watchmen
2001
Short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Watchmen
2001
Short written by
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Far from the Madding Crowd
1998
TV Movie performer: "Gee-Ho! Dobbin!", "On the Banks of the Allan Water"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Essential Poems for Christmas
2004
TV Movie
Herself - Reader
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2010
Bruce Corwin Award
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Best Live Action Short Film
The Odds (2009)
Known for movies
Sunshine (2007) as Capa's Sister
Far from the Madding Crowd (1998) as Bathsheba Everdene
$14 Million
