Diego Luna

Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander (born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, director, and producer.

He is known for his portrayal of Cassian Andor in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the Disney+ series Andor, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Drama.

In 1992, he had arcs on Televisa's El abuelo y yo and Ángeles sin paraíso.

As a teenager, Luna was part of the main casts of El premio mayor (1995–1996) and La vida en el espejo (1999–2000), playing the main characters' son; he also starred in the films Un hilito de sangre (A Trickle of Blood; 1995), El cometa (The Comet; 1999), and Un dulce olor a muerte (A Sweet Scent of Death; 1995), all which made him a teen star.

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, he co-starred in a variety of films like the sci-fi Elysium, comedy Casa de mi Padre, and the animated musical The Book of Life, before starring as Andor in 2016's Rogue One, a role he reprises in the 2022 Disney+ series of the same name.

He had small roles in the films Todo el poder (Gimme the Power; 2000) and Before Night Falls (2000), Luna's first international film.

Following an early career in Mexican telenovelas, he had his breakthrough in the critically acclaimed 2001 film Y tu mamá también.

Luna starred as Tenoch Iturbide alongside Gael García Bernal in Y tu mamá también (2001), a Mexican road trip film directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

A critical and box office success, the role brought him international stardom.

The film was the beginning series of high-profile collaborations with childhood friend García Bernal, with whom he would costar in several films and go on to establish Canana Films.

For these roles and others, the two are considered to be faces of the Nuevo Cine Mexicano film movement.

In the following two years, Luna acted in Mexican films along with English-language productions like the miniseries Fidel, Vampires: Los Muertos, the Kevin Costner western Open Range, and the Academy Award-winning Frida.

He starred in the 2003 film Nicotina, which was critically and commercially successful in Mexico.

2004 was a significant year for Luna as he starred in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal alongside Tom Hanks, the film Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (a Cuban-based reimagining of Dirty Dancing), and the indie crime film Criminal opposite John C. Reilly.

He subsequently had starring roles in the films Fade to Black (2006) and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely (2007), and also appeared in the critically acclaimed biopic Milk (2008).

In Spanish-language film, he starred in Sólo Dios sabe opposite Alice Braga (Only God Knows; 2006), crime thriller Solo quiero caminar (Walking Vengeance; 2008)—for which he was nominated for a Goya Award—and the soccer comedy Rudo y Cursi (2008), one of the highest grossing Mexican films of all time.

Since 2010, he has directed three feature films: Abel, Cesar Chavez, and Mr. Pig.

In the early 2010s, Luna co-starred in the Will Ferrell Spanish-language comedy Casa de mi Padre (2012) and appeared in the action films Contraband and Elysium.

He appeared opposite Katy Perry in her music video for "The One That Got Away;" as of 2022, the music video has nearly 1 billion views on YouTube.

He is the creator and director of the 2013 Fusion TV docu-series Back Home, his Amazon Studios talk show Pan y Circo, which premiered in 2020, and the 2021 Netflix scripted series Everything Will Be Fine (TV series).

Luna was born in Toluca and raised in Mexico City.

His mother, Fiona Alexander, was a British costume designer of Scottish and English descent.

She died in a car accident when Luna was two years old.

His father, Alejandro Luna, was a theater, film, and opera set designer.

He has an older sister.

Luna and his frequent co-star Gael García Bernal have been friends from infancy.

Their mothers were friends.

Luna acted in his first play at age seven.

As a child actor, he appeared in several telenovelas and films.

He starred in the animated musical comedy The Book of Life (2014) whose soundtrack charted in numerous countries.

In 2015, the pilot episode of the Amazon Studios series Casanova, in which Luna stars as Giacomo Casanova.

The show was not picked up to series.

In August 2015, it was announced that Luna was part of the cast of what was then known as Star Wars: Rogue One.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered in 2016, and his portrayal of Cassian Andor, a captain and intelligence officer of the Rebel Alliance, brought him international attention.

He reprised the role in Andor (2022–present), the Disney+ series centered around the character.

From 2018 to 2020, he starred as the drug trafficker Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in Narcos: Mexico.

Throughout his career, he has appeared in Mexican theater productions and produced a number of film and television projects, many with his close collaborator Gael García Bernal.

The show was originally announced in 2018 but production was delayed until November 2020 by the development process and the COVID-19 pandemic.

A second and final season began production in Fall 2022 and is expected to wrap in August 2023; the season will be released in 2024.

Luna is an executive producer of the series.