Diego Luna
Acting
- Born:
- 1979-12-29
- Place of birth:
- Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico
Biography
Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander is a Mexican actor, director, and producer, best known for his portrayal of Cassian Andor in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and the Disney+ series Andor (2022–2025), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Drama. Following an early career in Mexican telenovelas, Luna had his breakthrough in the critically acclaimed 2001 film Y tu mamá también. During the 2000s, he appeared in both Mexican and American films, including Frida, Open Range, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, The Terminal, Criminal, Milk, Sólo quiero caminar, and Rudo y Cursi. In the 2010s, his films included the science fiction film Elysium, the comedy Casa de mi Padre, and the animated musical The Book of Life. From 2018 to 2020, he starred as the drug trafficker Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in Narcos: Mexico. Luna has appeared in numerous Mexican theatre productions and has produced both film and television projects, many of which feature Gael García Bernal. Since 2010, he has directed three feature films: Abel, Cesar Chavez, and Mr. Pig. He is the creator and director of the 2013 Fusion TV docu-series Back Home, the Amazon Studios talk show Pan y Circo, which premiered in 2020, and the 2021 Netflix scripted series Everything Will Be Fine. In 2025, Time magazine listed Luna as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Known For
Filmography
Tangled
Eleven Days
Mexico 86
The One That Got Away: The Director's Cut
Mollusk
Kiss of the Spider Woman
La Máquina
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Water for Life
Andor
Soul of a Nation Presents Mi Gente: Groundbreakers and Changemakers
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
DC League of Super-Pets
Maya and the Three
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Wander Darkly
Pan y Circo
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Berlin, I Love You
The Kelly Clarkson Show
A Rainy Day in New York
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
If Beale Street Could Talk
Narcos: Mexico
Crow: The Legend
Mi Marido tiene Más Familia
Flatliners
The Bad Batch
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Blood Father
Chelsea
Casanova
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Casanova
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
I Stay with You
The Book of Life
Elysium
Made in Mexico
Casa de Mi Padre
Contraband
Conan
Morelos, Siervo de la Nación
Gritos D Muerte y Libertad
Gritos de Muerte y Libertad
Rudo & Cursi
Milk
Walking Vengeance
Mister Lonely
Spielberg on Spielberg
The Night Buffalo
The One Show
A Wonderful World
Fade to Black
Only God Knows
Carambola
Stories of Disenchantment
American Dad!
Criminal
The Terminal
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Beyond the 'Open Range'
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
Nicotina
Open Range
Soldiers of Salamina
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Vampires: Los Muertos
Dark Cities
Frida
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Fidel
Fidel
Never Too Young to Dream
Y Tu Mamá También
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
Before Night Falls
Gimme Power
A Sweet Scent of Death
La vida en el espejo
El Cometa
Perriférico
Coapa Heights
The View
A Trickle of Blood
Morena
MTV Europe Music Awards
Amber
The Last New Year
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Antonieta
Golden Globe Awards
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
I, Chihuahua
The Boys: Mexico