Julie Gonzalo leads A Knight to Remember as Emily, a museum conservator whose kiss on an English knight statue brings him to life. The Hallmark Channel film puts the fantasy setup front and center, with James Trevena sharing the cast list while his off-screen history with Ivana Baquero gives the promotion a second layer.
That pairing matters because Trevena and Baquero have been together for over a decade, and he said on a 10-year anniversary post, "It was so easy for me to fall in love with you and everything you are," followed by, "But to have you love me back, that was the true gift. You were, are and will always be my everything. From our first kiss to our last it'll always be you. Te Amo." Their relationship became public in 2020, when he wrote that they had kept things quiet on set during The Shannara Chronicles.
Emily and the knight
The premise is simple and built for a fast read: Emily, played by Gonzalo, kisses a statue and wakes an English knight. That kind of setup gives the film a clean romantic engine, because the story can move immediately from museum space to fantasy romance without spending much time on exposition. For a Hallmark Channel movie, clarity is the product.
Trevena, 40, comes into the project with fantasy genre credits already on his résumé. He was on MTV's The Shannara Chronicles, where Baquero, now 32, played Eretria. She began acting at 11 years old as Ofelia in Pan's Labyrinth, and more recently appeared in Spartacus: House of Ashur and A Widow's Game.
Trevena and Baquero
The relationship timeline gives the promo campaign a sharper frame than a standard holiday or romance rollout. Trevena shared on August 31, 2020 that he had proposed, and Baquero showed off her diamond ring in a few snapshots shared on X. He later called them "two forever valentines" in a post that also referenced the late Scruffy, and in 2021 she gave him a family portrait that included the dog.
Based on social media, the couple does not appear to have tied the knot yet. They are described as fiancées, not spouses, and that gap is the part readers are likely checking as they line up the off-screen story with the on-screen one.
Hallmark Channel on Saturday
A Knight to Remember was set to air on Saturday, October 3, at 8/7c on Hallmark Channel. For viewers, the practical takeaway is straightforward: Gonzalo anchors the film as Emily, Trevena adds genre familiarity, and Baquero's history with him gives the lead-in material more texture than a typical cast preview.
The title is doing two jobs at once. It sells a romance-fantasy premise that is easy to understand in one line, and it gives Hallmark Channel a clean hook for a night slot built around a cast with enough off-screen history to make the promotion feel less generic.
