Ana de Armas

Born on April 30, 1988, in Havana, Ana Celia de Armas Caso belonged to a very humble family. At the age of 14, she entered the National Art School of Cuba. The discoverer of her was a Spaniard, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón , who recruited her as the protagonist when she was 16 years old for Una rosa de Francia , where she played the sensual young Marie, nicknamed with the expression alluded to in the title.

Fed up with the regime, and with the economic difficulties, she decided to leave Cuba at the age of 18, without finishing her studies because she had not presented her final thesis, to end up in Spain, where she remembers that she gained a few kilos. “There was a lot of food! I craved everything all the time! I suffered a great anxiety to eat everything that I had missed in my childhood. Especially the sweets!” She did not go unnoticed for long, because after two weeks she already had a job, as one of the main interpreters of the series  El internado , where Carol, one of the residents of the institution where the action took place, Laguna Negra, was investigating the disappearance of five companions. The dramatic end of it shocked the many followers of fiction.

Become a celebrity in Spain, she monopolizes magazine covers, especially as a result of her romance with the actor Marc Clotet , whom she married in 2011. She played a young woman capable of any fallacy to get the man she is in love with in the feature film Mentiras y gordas , which was well received by the adolescent public. Right after, she returned to television as the slave Nerea in the series Hispania, la leyenda .

At that point, his hot streak ended. She did not take people to the movies with the romance she had with her former co-star from El internado , Martiño Rivas , in Por un fisto de besos . After separating from Clotet, she came to a sad conclusion: things were no longer going well in the country of the bull’s skin. “I have been in Spain for a long time without doing anything,” she recalls. “I don’t know how it works on other people, but I am an actress because acting makes me very happy. I can’t stay at home because I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying…”.

In the end, he made the decision to move again, now to the mecca of cinema, where he could take another step forward in his career. In the castings he made a pleasant impression, so in a short time he accompanied Keanu Reeves , with whom he forged a friendship, in Knock Knock , a bland thriller, and La hija de Dios , a policeman who didn’t have much luck either. He shared the screen with Robert De Niro in Hands of Stone , a biopic of Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, and with Scott Eastwood in the action film Overdrive , while in the comedy Gun Game., a title that does not refer to his last name, was content with a small role alongside Miles Teller and Jonah Hill .

But what really struck her was being cast in one of the lead roles in Blade Runner 2049 , the sequel to the legendary Ridley Scott film . “I have no words to describe this feeling. I’m flying!” she declared. She plays Joi, the virtual companion of the protagonist, Ryan Gosling , with whom she lives a strange love story.