Ana de Armas (Havana, 1988) grew up in the small Cuban city of Santa Cruz del Norte. The daughter of university students had a happy childhood in the typical straits of the island. She admits there are pop culture gaps because she doesn’t have internet or DVDs at home. As a teenager, she had fun imitating sweet Emma on the Spice Girls and discovered a neighbor’s home theater. On one of these getaways, she returned from the heart by repeating scenes from Danny De Vito’s ‘Matilda’: the do-it-all girl inspired her to become an actress.
300 Euro to Spain
He enrolled at the Havana Theater School and became a director in his second year. Manuel Gutierrez Aragon hired him for “A rose from France”, Jorge Perugorria. He just turned 18, dusted his Spanish passport – he has dual citizenship, his grandparents were from Palencia and Leon – and settled in Madrid with just 300 euros in his pocket.
To ‘boarding school’ in two weeks
The actress, who recently arrived in Spain, miscalculated the size of her savings in Cuban pesos and slept on a sofa, but two weeks later she met with the casting director in Madrid. Louis San Narciso who signed him for ‘El Internado’. Some of her best friends, like Elena Furiase, are from that era. He and his mother, Lolita, put him in when he had just emigrated.
Young wife in real life
Love came to her too, and she married the actor at the age of 23. marc toilet On a farm on the Costa Brava in the summer of 2011. They divorced almost two years later: there is no footage of the ceremony.
I’m leaving you there madrid
With the end of her marriage to Clotet and knowing that her career in Spain couldn’t outrun the stereotype of a sexy teenager, she decided to try her luck in Los Angeles. It was recommended not to cast “for Juanas or Marías”, which was a difficult task given his non-English speaking. He combined his acting with his accent and acted in ‘Tick Click’ (2015) with Keanu Reeves, who would become one of his supporters in a few months, and offered him a role in his next movie,’God’s daughter’. His international career took off.
From ‘Blade Runner’ to Bond Girl
Unbelievers like Paz Vega or Elsa Pataky who predicted a short flight in Hollywood had to shut up when they saw her in 2017.Blade Edge 2049‘, shoulder to shoulder with Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. He has worked with Clive Owen, Robert de Niro, Penélope Cruz and Helen Hunt. She was also the first Spaniard to become a Bond girl in ‘No Time to Die’ with Daniel Craig.
Ben Affleck’s Girlfriend
During the filming of the psychological thriller in 2019 ‘Deep water’ She met Ben Affleck, with whom she lived, after her divorce with Jennifer Garner. The relationship lasted throughout the year of the pandemic, when Ana de Armas managed to establish herself as a style benchmark by simply walking around in the absence of red carpets. his dog elvis Go out for coffee or with Affleck’s company.
She is in a relationship after breaking up with Ben Affleck. Paul Boukadakis, 38 years old, attractive vice president of Tinder.
Effect by ‘time’
‘Time’ magazine in 2021 Most Influential People of the Year: each of the elected had someone close and involved explaining the reason for the election.
In her case, Jamie Lee Curtis, who met her during filming, was sponsored.daggers in the back‘ (2019): “His talent is indisputable. His obvious talents,” he praised.
Netflix’s Marilyn
But his biggest success came after he put himself in the shoes of Marilyn Monroe, to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance, in Netflix’s explosive biopic ‘Blonde’. Based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the film is financed by Brad Pitt’s independent production company Plan B Entertainment, and features the following predecessors: Jessica Chastain or Naomi Watts.