Biography
Armando Salas is a cinematographer. Born in Havana, Cuba, he immigrated to the United States during the Mariel boatlift and grew up in Miami. He attended the New World School of the Arts and earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts, where he received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and the 2002 American Society of Cinematographers Student Heritage Award.
Salas has worked on independent films and commercials before moving into television. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, inducted in 2020. His credits include Ozark (2018–2020), for which he received Emmy nominations, Griselda (2024), also Emmy-nominated, Invasion (2021), The Terminal List (2022) and The Old Man (2022). He served as cinematographer on the series Lanterns (2026) and Wonder Man (2026).
