Ana de Armas, full name Ana Celia de Armas Caso, was born in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, on April 30, 1988. In case you were wondering, she does not hail from a family of entertainers, nor does she come from money. According to de Armas, her background is quite humble. "I come from a modest family in Cuba, both my parents are workers, we're no one's children, no one's cousins, we don't know anyone," she told the Golden Globes website in 2016. "Of course, we lived like any other Cuban family, with the food we were given and however we could." De Armas also has an older brother, Javier Caso, who works as a photographer and sound engineer.
Life in Cuba was not too shabby for de Armas, and although she later moved to the United States, her heart is still in her hometown where her parents live. "I grew up in nature, at the beach, and playing on the streets with friends. I felt very free. Just going wild out there and coming back home to have dinner and watch cartoons," she reminisced about her life in Havana in an interview with Men's Journal. She would also watch American movies, noting, "I remember looking up to Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks because they had all these movies on TV."
De Armas eventually realized acting was her calling when she was a tween, so at 14 years old, she enrolled in Cuba's National Theater School. There, she worked on her acting chops for four years.
