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Name
Diego Luna

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1979-12-29 (47 years old)

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

Movies

Tv Shows

2002 Frida as Alejandro
2003 Open Range as Button
2004 The Terminal as Enrique Cruz
2001 Y Tu Mamá También as Tenoch Iturbide
2008 Milk as Jack Lira
2002 Vampires: Los Muertos as Sancho
2004 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights as Javier Suarez
2008 Rudo & Cursi as Beto
1999 Perriférico
2000 Before Night Falls as Carlos
2003 Nicotina as Lolo
2008 Walking Vengeance as Gabriel
2004 Criminal as Rodrigo
2003 Soldiers of Salamina as Gastón
2006 Only God Knows as Dàmian
2008 Mister Lonely as Michael Jackson
Soon Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin as Diego (voice)
2013 Elysium as Julio
2006 Fade to Black as Tommaso Moreno
2012 Casa de Mi Padre as Raul
2007 The Night Buffalo as Manuel
2012 Contraband as Gonzalo
2005 Stories of Disenchantment as Amante en Video
2012 Made in Mexico as Self
2010 Morelos, Siervo de la Nación as Narrator
2002 Dark Cities as Fede
1999 A Sweet Scent of Death as Ramon
2014 The Book of Life as Manolo (voice)
2019 Berlin, I Love You as Drag Queen
2018 Crow: The Legend as Moth (voice)
2000 Gimme Power as Esteban
2022 Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Self - Cassian Andor / Executive Producer
2014 I Stay with You as Esteban
2016 Blood Father as Jonah
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Cassian Andor
1999 El Cometa as Victor
1995 A Trickle of Blood as León
1994 Amber as Muni Frahabarana
2022 Soul of a Nation Presents Mi Gente: Groundbreakers and Changemakers as Self
2025 Kiss of the Spider Woman as Valentín Arregui / Armando
2017 Flatliners as Ray
2004 Beyond the 'Open Range' as Self
2005 Carambola as El Perro
2002 Fidel as Renato Guitart
2001 Never Too Young to Dream as Postman
2006 A Wonderful World as Reportero en Estocolmo
1992 The Last New Year
2015 Casanova as Giacomo Casanova
2017 The Bad Batch as Jimmy (uncredited)
2019 A Rainy Day in New York as Francisco Vega
2001 Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También' as Self
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk as Pedrocito
2020 Wander Darkly as Matteo
2017 The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' as Self
1999 Coapa Heights as Eric
2021 Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans as Krel (voice)
2022 DC League of Super-Pets as Chip (voice)
2025 Mollusk
1982 Antonieta as (uncredited)
1995 Morena as Dos
2023 Water for Life as Narrator
2002 The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2026 Eleven Days as Federico Carrasco
2026 Mexico 86 as Martín de la Torre
2010 Gritos D Muerte y Libertad as Guadalupe Victoria
2026 The One That Got Away: The Director's Cut as Diego
2028 Tangled as Hawthorne
Soon I, Chihuahua as Juan (voice)
2007 Spielberg on Spielberg as Self (archive footage)

2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2021 Maya and the Three ( 9 episodes ) as Zatz (voice)
2015 Casanova ( 1 episode ) as Giacomo Casanova
2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2016 Chelsea ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 Home Movie: The Princess Bride ( 1 episode ) as Inigo Montoya
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2018 Narcos: Mexico ( 21 episodes ) as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
2024 La Máquina ( 6 episodes ) as Andy Lujan
2022 Andor ( 24 episodes ) as Cassian Andor
2018 3Below: Tales of Arcadia ( 26 episodes ) as Krel (voice)
1999 La vida en el espejo ( 1 episode ) as Eugenio Román Franco
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1994 MTV Europe Music Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
2004 On Air with Ryan Seacrest ( 1 episode ) as Self
2005 American Dad! ( 1 episode ) as Mauricio (voice)
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 Pan y Circo ( 10 episodes ) as Self - Host
2010 Gritos de Muerte y Libertad ( 13 episodes ) as Guadalupe Victoria
2010 Conan ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2006 The One Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2023 Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest Host
2002 Fidel ( 2 episodes ) as Renato Guitart
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
Soon The Boys: Mexico ( 1 episode )
2018 Mi Marido tiene Más Familia ( 1 episode ) as Robert Cooper
2016 Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia ( 2 episodes ) as Krel (voice)

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