Top 10 Facts About Ana De Armas

Top 10 Facts About Ana De Armas

Ana de Armas is a rising star in Hollywood with great performances recently. Born in Cuba, she started her acting career in Spain. Over time, she gained international recognition for her roles in critically acclaimed films such as Blade Runner 2049 and Knives Out. With her talent, versatility, and charm, Ana de Armas has become a sought-after actress and a style icon. In this article, we will take a closer look at her life and career. Let us have a look at the top 10 facts about Ana De Armas.

1. Ana de Armas was born in Havana, Cuba

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Ana was born in the year 1988. She was raised in the small city of Santa Cruz del Norte. Her maternal grandparents were migrants to Cuba from Spain. On the other end, father Ramón worked in various jobs, including as a bank manager, teacher, school principal and deputy mayor of a town. Ana’s father studied philosophy at a Soviet university. Her mother Ana worked in the human resources section of the Ministry of Education.

2. She had no internet access during her childhood

During her childhood and adolescence Ana had no internet access. She also had limited knowledge of popular culture beyond Cuba. On a normal day, she was allowed to watch “20 minutes of cartoons on Saturday and the Sunday movie matinee.”

Her  family did not own a “video or DVD player”. She therefore watched Hollywood movies in her neighbor’s apartment. She memorized and practiced monologues in front of a mirror. At 12 she decided to become an actress.

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3. She began her acting career in 2006

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In 2002, aged 14, she successfully auditioned to join Havana’s National Theatre of Cuba. She sometimes hitchhiked to attend the “rigorous” course. At age 18, with Spanish citizenship through her maternal grandparents, Ana moved to Madrid to pursue an acting career.

Ana had a starring role opposite Álex González in Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón’s romantic drama Una rosa de Francia (2006). The Cuban actor Jorge Perugorría suggested that the director consider de Armas for the role, after meeting her while attending a birthday party with his daughters.

4. Ana de Armas transitioned to Hollywood after moving to Los Angeles

With encouragement from her newly hired Hollywood agent, she decided to move to Los Angeles. When de Armas first arrived in Los Angeles in 2014, she had to start her career “from scratch.” This is because she spoke very little English.

During early auditions, she often “didn’t even know what she was saying. She spent four months in full-time education to learn English. She starred opposite Keanu Reeves in her first Hollywood release—Eli Roth’s erotic thriller Knock Knock (2015). She learned her lines phonetically.

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5. She has appeared in great films such as War Dogs (2016), Hands of Stone (2016), and Knives Out (2019)

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De Armas had a supporting role in Todd Phillips’s War Dogs (2016), acting opposite Miles Teller as the wife of an arms dealer. She learned her lines phonetically.

She starred opposite Édgar Ramírez in the biopic Hands of Stone (2016) as the wife of Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. In Denis Villeneuve’s futuristic thriller Blade Runner 2049 (2017), de Armas had a supporting role as Joi, the holographic AI girlfriend of Ryan Gosling’s character, a blade runner.

6. Ana de Armas was once married to Spanish actor Marc Clotet

 De Armas began a relationship with Spanish actor Marc Clotet in mid-2010 and they married in Costa Brava in July 2011. They divorced in early 2013. She was briefly engaged to American talent agent Franklin Latt during a relationship from early 2015 to late 2016. After meeting on the set of Deep Water in late 2019, de Armas dated American actor Ben Affleck from March 2020 to January 2021.

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7. Ana de Armas faced criticism in the film inspired by Marilyn Monroe

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Netflix released the Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde starring Ana de Armas as the legendary actress, and there was a backlash over the actor’s accent in the role. However, the actress was also celebrated for her tremendous performance in the role.

8. She has been nominated for several awards

 For her role in Knives Out, De Armas was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical with her also winning the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and the National Board of Review Award for Best Cast with the cast.

She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for her performance in Knock Knock.

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9. Ana de Armas is a hands on type of girl

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As the actress told Harper’s Bazaar, she grew up with more of a DIY approach to beauty. Growing up in Cuba, we did not have products in beautiful jars,” she said.

“It was more a case of putting things in a blender and making your own cucumber mask or honey and sugar scrub.” She and everyone she knew, she explained, learned beauty recipes from their mothers. She points out that beauty is taking care of ones natural skin.

10. She has appeared in the covers of many magazines

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Ana has been featured on some of the most prestigious magazine covers, including Vogue and Vanity Fair. Ana was featured in Porter magazine just before the premiere of No Time To Die, the final James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig. Then, just before The Gray Man’s release, there was an article in Elle Magazine.