Ana Celia de Armas Caso, born April 30, 1988, is a Cuban-Spanish actress who began her career in Cuba with a leading role in the romantic drama Una Rosa de Francia (2006). She moved to Madrid, Spain, at the age of 18 and starred in the popular drama El Internado for six seasons from 2007 to 2010.

After moving to Los Angeles, de Armas had English-language roles in the psychological thriller Knock Knock (2015) and the crime comedy War Dogs (2016), and also had a supporting role in the sports biopic Hands of Stone ( 2016). At that time, she only spoke Spanish fluently.

She became known for her role as Joi, the holographic AI projection in the science fiction film Blade Runner 2049 (2017). She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of nurse Marta Cabrera in the crime film Knives Out (2019). She then played Bond girl Paloma in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021) and Marilyn Monroe in the biopic Blonde (2022). For the latter, she became the first Cuban actress to receive an Oscar nomination for best actress.

At the age of 14, Ana de Armas successfully applied to join the National Theater of Cuba in Havana. During her studies, she made three films. She dropped out of the four-year theater course a few months before submitting her thesis because Cuban graduates are not allowed to leave the country without completing three years of mandatory community service. At the age of 18, after obtaining Spanish citizenship through her maternal grandparents, she moved to Madrid to pursue a career as an actress.

After living in New York for a few months to learn English, Ana de Armas was persuaded to return to Spain to star in seventeen episodes of the historical drama Hispania (2010–2011). She then starred in the horror films El callejón (2011) and Anabel (2015) by Antonio Trashorras and in the drama Por un puñado de besos (2014).

With the encouragement of her newly hired Hollywood agent, she decided to move to Los Angeles. When Ana de Armas arrived in Los Angeles in 2014, she had to restart her career. She starred opposite Keanu Reeves in Eli Roth’s erotic thriller Knock Knock (2015), her first Hollywood outing, and learned her lines phonetically.

Ana de Armas had a supporting role in Todd Phillips’ War Dogs (2016), playing an arms dealer’s wife alongside Miles Teller, and relearned her lines phonetically. David Ehrlich of IndieWire found her “memorable in a thankless role”. She played the wife of Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán alongside Édgar Ramírez in the biopic “Hands of Stone” (2016). Despite its delayed release, Hands of Stone was the first Hollywood film directed by de Armas.

In 2018, Ana de Armas starred alongside Demián Bichir in John Hillcoat’s medical drama Corazón. In the short film, she plays a Dominican woman suffering from heart failure. Her role as an immigrant nurse in the ensemble crime film Knives Out (2019), written and directed by Rian Johnson, was widely praised and marked a breakthrough for her. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture or Musical and the cast also won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and the National Board of Review Award for Best Cast.

In 2021, Ana de Armas reunites with Daniel Craig to play a Bond girl in No Time to Die by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Fukunaga wrote the character of a Cuban CIA agent with Ana de Armas in mind, and she described the character as bubbly and “very irresponsible”.

Ana de Armas is the daughter of Ramón de Armas, who worked in various professions, including bank manager, teacher, school principal, and deputy mayor of a city. Previously, he studied philosophy at a Soviet university under Ana Caso, who worked in the human resources department of the Ministry of Education. She has an older brother, Javier, a photographer living in New York.

Who are Ana de Armas’ children?

Ana de Armas is not known to have a child of her own as she has not yet given birth to a child or adopted a child.