Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2252
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ana de Armas works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ana de Armas appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ana. Blade Runner 2049 is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Len Wiseman, Ron Howard, Dexter Fletcher and others, Ana de Armas helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Joi · Knives Out (2019) as Marta Cabrera · Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Joi
Career snapshot
Ranked #2252 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2009–2025
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
Blade Runner 2049
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Blade Runner 2049
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
2h 4m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Knives Out, The Informer, Blade Runner 2049 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Knives Out, The Informer, Blade Runner 2049.
Most productive era
2020s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 4.61 film | 7.06 films | 6.26 films |
| Action | — | 6.11 film | 7.14 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.74 films | 6.67 films |
| Comedy | 4.61 film | 7.52 films | 6.91 film |
| Sci-Fi | — | 9.21 film | — |
| Crime | — | 6.45 films | 6.82 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.91 film |
| Horror | — | 5.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Carola.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Eden
The current state of the argument, as Baroness.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
20 of 20 films
as Joi
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Marta Cabrera
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Joi
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Eve
Directed by Len Wiseman
as Iz
Directed by Todd Phillips
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 20 of 20 titles · 22 total credits · active 2007–2025
Ballerina
2025 · Eve · Executive Producer
Eden
2025 · Baroness
Ghosted
2023 · Sadie Rhodes · Executive Producer
Deep Water
2022 · Melinda Van Allen
The Gray Man
2022 · Dani Miranda
Blonde
2022 · Norma Jeane / Marilyn Monroe
No Time to Die
2021 · Paloma
The Night Clerk
2020 · Andrea Rivera
Wasp Network
2020 · Ana Margarita
Sergio
2020 · Carolina Larriera
Knives Out
2019 · Marta Cabrera
The Informer
2019 · Sofia
Blade Runner 2049
2017 · Joi
Overdrive
2017 · Stephanie
Exposed
2016 · Isabel de La Cruz
Hands of Stone
2016 · Felicidad Iglesias
War Dogs
2016 · Iz
Knock Knock
2015 · Bel
Sex, Party and Lies
2009 · Carola
The Boarding School
2007 · TV · Carolina Leal
The defining work
#1
Joi
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Performance score9.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Joi gives Ana de Armas a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marta Cabrera
Knives Out (2019)
Performance score8.2
Knives Out asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marta Cabrera is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joi
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Performance score8.1
Blade Runner 2049 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eve
Ballerina (2025)
Performance score7.9
Ballerina asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eve is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Joi
Start here. Blade Runner 2049 is the clearest statement of what Ana de Armas does — accessible, 164 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ana at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
War Dogs (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Blade Runner 2049 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Keeps the drama register of War Dogs but asks for a colder reading of it.
Knives Out (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Blade Runner 2049 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ballerina (2025)
Keeps the crime register of Knives Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Eli Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Knock Knock
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably War Dogs
Antonio Negret
Director
1 film together
Notably Overdrive
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Knives Out
Olivier Assayas
Director
1 film together
Notably Wasp Network
Michael Cristofer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Night Clerk
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Die
Andrew Dominik
Director
1 film together
Notably Blonde
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gray Man
Adrian Lyne
Director
1 film together
Notably Deep Water
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghosted
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Eden
Len Wiseman
Director
1 film together
Notably Ballerina
Ryan Gosling
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Harrison Ford
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Robin Wright
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Sylvia Hoeks
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Mackenzie Davis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Jared Leto
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Carla Juri
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Hiam Abbass
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Lennie James
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Sean Young
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Blade Runner 2049Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knives OutLen Wiseman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BallerinaCary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to DieTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War DogsDexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostedAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Gray ManRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EdenMichael Cristofer
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Night ClerkOlivier Assayas
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wasp NetworkAntonio Negret
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OverdriveAndrew Dominik
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlondeAdrian Lyne
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deep WaterEli Roth
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knock KnockSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
3 wins · 2 nominations
1 win · 1 nomination · latest 2018
Blade Runner 2049
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
1 win · latest 2019
as Actor
1 win · latest 2020
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Wasp Network
as Ana Margarita
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
No Time to Die
as Paloma
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Ana de Armas has known it for a long time.”
“You've never seen a miracle.”
“Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.3 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #102 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Charisma | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2017–2017 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Joi — Blade Runner 2049 | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Blade Runner 2049 | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Mystery Movies, Best Space Movies, Best Movies of the 2010s, Sci-Fi Movies, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Drama Movies
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Wasp Network
as Ana Margarita
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Die
as Paloma
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
War Dogs
as Iz
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Blade Runner 2049
as Joi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 11 Nutevio collections
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