Ana de Armas is a star of this year’s Oscars, having been nominated for Best Leading Actress for her role as Marilyn Monroe in Blonde.
The 34-year-old actress has also been in the headlines in recent years due to her romantic relationships. Her relationship with Ben Affleck, which was made public during the pandemic, was one of the most publicized of the moment. Their subsequent breakup also received a lot of media attention, with Affleck’s brother even throwing away a life-size cardboard cutout of Ana.
Five months after this well-publicized split, rumors began to circulate that Ana had found love again. And indeed she had. Since June 2021, the Cuban-Spanish actress has been in a relationship with businessman Paul Boukadakis (39), who is the director of the famous dating app Tinder.
How Ana de Armas and Paul Boukadakis met
Although Boukadakis runs one of the biggest dating apps, he and Ana actually met in a more traditional way. As reported by Page Six, Ana and Paul met through mutual friends.
“They met through friends. He’s based in Austin, but splits his time between Texas and Santa Monica. He spent a lot of time with Ana before she traveled to Mallorca in May to shoot her new movie,” a source revealed in June 2021, referring to The Gray Man, Netflix’s most expensive film, in which Ana stars alongside Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling, and Rege-Jean Page.
It wasn’t until December 2021, however, that the couple were first seen kissing in public.
In an interview with She in January 2023, Ana de Armas revealed that the couple had moved into an apartment in New York to escape the media attention they were receiving in Los Angeles.
Both of them try to keep their relationship out of the spotlight, which is why they are never seen posing together on red carpets. In fact, he was not seen with the actress on her 34th birthday, which led to some media speculation about a possible breakup. Ana denied this in the aforementioned interview, saying, “I had everyone with me: my boyfriend, my dogs, Chris (Evans) and the crew. I wasn’t at home having a romantic dinner; I was on set with my people,” referring to the filming of the movie The Invisible Agent.
Who is Paul Boukadakis?
Paul Boukadakis He was born in 1984 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and from there he moved to Los Angeles to study at Loyola Marymount University.
At just 26 years old, he founded his first company, a video and music platform called Live broadcast. Among other undertakings, his great success in the business world was to create Wheela video sharing application.
It was so successful that the owners of Tinder they noticed it and they bought it in 2017, so Paul became the dating app’s vice president of special initiatives. In fact, he was one of the promoters of the ‘Swipe Night’ interactive experience.
But Boukadakis is not only a technology lover, he also shares his passion for cinema with Ana. He was an actor and producer of short films and mini-series such as Dinner with Raphael oh A fuchsia elephant (2009), in which he appears in front of the cameras; And Lucy in the sky with diamonds (2012), The snow monster oh The Berkshire Apprentice (2016), in which he appears as a producer.