Ana de Armas
de Armas in 2016, photo by Denis Makarenko/Bigstock
Birth Name: Ana Celia de Armas Caso
Place of Birth: Havana, Cuba
Date of Birth: 30 April, 1988
Ethnicity: Cuban [Spanish]
Ana de Armas is a Cuban actress. She is known for her roles in the films Sex, Party and Lies; Por un puñado de besos, Knock Knock, Exposed, Hands of Stone, War Dogs, Overdrive, Blade Runner 2049, The Informer, Wasp Network, Knives Out, Sergio, The Night Clerk, No Time to Die, Deep Water, The Gray Man, Blonde, and Ghosted; and on the Spanish shows El Internado and Hispania, la leyenda.
She is the daughter of Ana, who worked at the Ministry of Education, and Ramón, who was a bank manager, teacher, school principal, and town deputy mayor. She was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in the seaside town of Santa Cruz del Norte. On her mother’s side, her grandfather was from Guardo, Palencia, and her grandmother was from Valverde de Balboa, León, both in Spain. Ana moved to Madrid, Spain, when she was eighteen to pursue an acting career. She is also a Spanish citizen.
A picture of Ana with her parents can be seen here.
Ana, Catalina Sandino Moreno (for Maria Full of Grace, 2004), Yalitza Aparicio (for Roma, 2018), Ariana DeBose (for West Side Story, 2021), and America Ferrera (for Barbie, 2023), are thus far the only actors of Latin-American descent born after 1980 to have been nominated for an acting Oscar, with Ariana having won.
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Definitely looks european.
You MUST be american.
There’s no such thing as looking “european”. Europe is a continent just like any other continent.
If you mean “white” which I’m pretty sure you do, “indigenous european” is not synonymous with “white”.
That’s just the racist education of U S A
It’s the western and the northern europeans who were always white
She is considered a woman of color in America. It’s so weird. Where is the color?
yeah, north americans used to say that latino-americans are all mixed with africans and or indigenous people
that’s quite a messed up
I think that some people are just not educated and can’t even read a map.
I dont think she’s considered a “Woman Of Color” in America. I know Americans has this false idea on what race is but lets be honest if anybody sees this woman out in the street, they are going to assume she is white. In a way she still benefits from white privilege.
Many refer to her as a poc. Plenty of people (Americans mostly) think that Spanish is a race and anyone with a Spanish background cannot also be white.
Most Americans, and I’m sure some international citizens of the world, are unaware that the people from Spain are by majority European/Caucasian/”white”. A huge majority of English speaking Americans confuse all Spanish speaking people for one another.
The most common Spanish speaking people Americans are familiar with are Mexicans. Since the majority of Mexicans are of indigenous and Spanish/European mixture, mestizo, many Americans think of all Spanish speakers, have that heritage and consider them to be a separate race or distinct ethnicity.
It does not help that Latin is a blanket term that has a few meanings in America and a separate meaning in the international community. One meaning that describes the people that use the Romance languages. Although I do not think I’ve ever heard anyone call Romanians Latin.
However the Italian, the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the French all have been referenced as Latin people, even though it’s probably not entirely accurate to do so.
Yet I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve heard someone say “o that person is passionate because he/she is Latin” regardless of which country/heritage they have or are from. Classically I suppose Latin would specifically designated for the Italians.
In the western hemisphere Latin and Latin/o/a/x more commonly refers to the Spanish and Portuguese speakers of the Americas. Yet, some people still use the international definition, and still call the Italians and Spanish Latins, and even still the French. So the conflation of ethnicities and languages makes for confusion and mislabeling frequently occurs.
Sometimes it does not even occur to people that a person that only speaks Spanish/Portuguese can be from a family of immigrants from, say for example, Germany, that moved to a Spanish/Portuguese speaking country, and not in fact be of Spanish, or Portuguese, or amerindian heritage at all. Gisele Bundchen is a good example of this, some people only thinks if her as Brazilian as she is sixth generation Brazilian.
At least that how it seems to me.
They probably think “Spanish” mean somewhere in Latin America. They don’t think of the country.
I’ve legitimately known Americans not know that Spain is a country.
What did they think it was, a planet?
@Yesterday Spaniards are white.
Not sure why you’re telling me something I already know.
She is also a Spanish citizen. With her parents: http://www.hola.com/imagenes/noticias-de-actualidad/2017/03/24/ana-de-armas-cuba.jpg
Yes, she has spanish nationality, ius sanguini, this is why she could travel to spain and left Cuba, her accent in spain is rare, not cuban and not spanish.
She got some African in her, but the family hide it (or they don’t know).
But you know it?
@Kimmel
she looks 10o% European.
Her phenotype is fully Euro, but it doesn’t mean her genetics is fully European. Phenotype ≠ genotype. When it comes to white Latinos, most have some minor non-Euro admixture.
you are saying that just because she’s latina.
It’s true. Cubans are the only Caribbean’s that act like they are fully European when probably like 90% of Caribbean’s are mixed with African, European and indigenous. There are many mixed and black Cubans too. It’s just that most of the famous ones are white passing.
And around 40% are entirely of European descent.
@izzybizzy Even if Ana has African DNA its probably so low its irrelevant to even claim. Oprah Winfrey is 11% Asian. Does that make her an asian woman? Liv Tyler has 1/128th Black dna but she is still a white woman.
beauty