Ana de Armas

De Armas began acting in Cuban and Spanish film and television as a teenager before relocating to pursue an English-language career, a challenging transition given she reportedly learned much of her English phonetically for early American auditions.

She played Joi, a holographic companion whose love may be genuine or just extremely good software — the film's saddest and most debated question, embodied. A Cuban-born actress who had recently begun building an English-language career, she brought warmth and vulnerability to a character explicitly designed as a product.

The performance helped raise her international profile considerably ahead of her later Hollywood roles, including major studio franchise work in the years that followed.