Ana Stelline

She builds the pasts that keep artificial souls from breaking.

Dr. Ana Stelline is a scientist who designs the implanted memories the Wallace Corporation installs in its replicants; her own Stelline Corporation is an independent subcontractor. She appears in the 2017 sequel film Blade Runner 2049. Her work is conducted within a sterile, controlled environment that contrasts with the polluted exterior of Los Angeles. She is portrayed by actress Carla Juri.

Quick Facts

Affiliation: Wallace Corporation (Contractor)

Lore & Background

Ana Stelline's role as a memory architect involves creating emotionally resonant but fabricated childhood memories for replicants. These implants serve as psychological ballast, providing a sense of identity and continuity that prevents replicants from becoming unstable. The Wallace Corporation installs them because they drastically improve a replicant's mental stability. In Blade Runner 2049 the memory of a wooden toy horse hidden in an orphanage furnace becomes central to the plot: she confirms to K that someone really lived it, and it turns out to be her own.

Reader's Guide

Because of an immune deficiency she has lived for two decades in a sterile clean-room in her company's compound, cut off from the outside world. Basing implants on real memories is forbidden, yet she slips a few of her own best memories into them as a gift. She is secretly the daughter of Deckard and Rachael, hidden as an infant by the replicant underground; when K brings her the memory of the wooden horse she confirms that it is real, and at the end of the film Deckard comes to her facility.