Diego Luna
- Acting
- December 29, 1979 · 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 · Hawthorne
- Ashes · Director, Writer
- Man Overboard! · Producer
- Eleven Days · Federico Carrasco
- On the Road · Producer
- Mexico 86 · Martín de la Torre, Executive producer
- The One That Got Away: The Director's Cut · Diego
- Mollusk
- Thesis on a Domestication · Executive producer
- Kiss of the Spider Woman · Valentín Arregui / Armando, Executive producer
- ASCO: Without Permission · Executive producer
- La Máquina · Andy Lujan, Story
- State of Silence · Executive producer
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Water for Life · Narrator
- Andor · Cassian Andor, Executive producer
- Soul of a Nation Presents Mi Gente: Groundbreakers and Changemakers · Self
- Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look · Self
- DC League of Super-Pets · Chip (Voice)
- Maya and the Three · Zatz (Voice)
- Everything Will Be Fine · Director, Producer
- Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans · Krel (Voice)
- Wander Darkly · Matteo
- Pan y Circo · Self, Director
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride · Inigo Montoya
- Berlin, I Love You · Drag Queen
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- A Rainy Day in New York · Francisco Vega
- Chicuarotes · Associate Producer
- 3Below: Tales of Arcadia · Krel (Voice)
- If Beale Street Could Talk · Pedrocito
- Narcos: Mexico · Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
- Crow: The Legend · Moth (Voice)
- Mi Marido tiene Más Familia · Robert Cooper
- Flatliners · Ray
- The Bad Batch · Jimmy (uncredited)
- The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' · Self
- Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia · Krel (Voice)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story · Cassian Andor
- Salt and Fire · Executive producer
- Blood Father · Jonah
- Mr. Pig · Screenplay, Director
- Chelsea · Self
- Casanova · Giacomo Casanova
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- The Chosen Ones · Executive producer
- Casanova · Giacomo Casanova
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · Self
- Leagues · Executive producer
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- I Stay with You · Esteban
- The Book of Life · Manolo (Voice)
- Cesar Chavez · Producer, Director
- Paraíso · Executive producer
- Elysium · Julio
- Made in Mexico · Self
- Casa de Mi Padre · Raul
- Contraband · Gonzalo
- Miss Bala · Executive producer
- Conan · Self
- Morelos, Siervo de la Nación · Narrator
- Gritos D Muerte y Libertad · Guadalupe Victoria
- Gritos de Muerte y Libertad · Guadalupe Victoria
- Revolución · Director
- Abel · Director, Writer
- Sin Nombre · Executive producer
- Rudo & Cursi · Beto
- Milk · Jack Lira
- Walking Vengeance · Gabriel, Executive producer
- I'm Gonna Explode · Executive producer
- Mister Lonely · Michael Jackson
- Spielberg on Spielberg · Self
- J.C. Chavez · Director
- Cochochi · Executive producer
- The Night Buffalo · Manuel, Co-producer
- The One Show · Self
- Drama/Mex · Executive producer
- A Wonderful World · Reportero en Estocolmo
- Fade to Black · Tommaso Moreno
- Only God Knows · Dàmian