[1] Baroud was born in Lelystad, Netherlands to a Curaçaoan mother and a Lebanese father[2] and spent some of his childhood on the island of Curaçao.
[5] He studied Political Science at university,[6] before going on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 2016 with a Master of Arts in Acting.
[7][8] After graduating from drama school, Baroud appeared in the 2017 productions of Fennel-Spiked Lamb at the Bunker, All Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits alongside Mark Rylance, The Last Ones at Jermyn Street Theatre, and Irvine Welsh's Creatives for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
[9] In 2019, Baroud had a recurring role as Ron in the first series of the BBC One drama Baptiste and was an understudy for A Song at Twilight at the Theatre Royal in Bath.
[14][15] After winning the 2021 MTI Stiles + Drewe Mentorship Award, Baroud made his writing debut with the musical After Elijah, which he presented in July 2022 at The Other Palace.