Ana de Armas is a Cuban-born actress who grew up in Santa Cruz del Norte, near Havana, and trained at the National Theatre School of Havana before moving to Madrid at 18. She is naturalized Spanish and American, and her grandparents were Spanish immigrants from northern Spain.

She is known for playing the holographic AI Joi in Blade Runner 2049, nurse Marta Cabrera in Knives Out, Paloma in No Time to Die, and Marilyn Monroe in Blonde, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Sp