Actor: Ana de Armas

Ana de Armas came from Cuban and Spanish cinema and moved to Los Angeles at twenty-six speaking almost no English, learning it in a few months.

Knives Out gave her the lead, a nurse who vomits when she lies, which is a comic device carrying an entire mystery. Blade Runner 2049 gave her a hologram, and Blonde brought a Best Actress nomination for playing Marilyn Monroe in a film that was otherwise heavily criticised.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) film posterAna de Armas

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Review

Blade Runner 2049 is visually extraordinary and narratively inert. Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins built some of the most stunning images in recent science fiction cinema, the orange desolation of post-collapse Las Vegas, the grey protein farms extending to the…

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