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Diego Luna

Diego Luna

Birthday: 1979-12-29 | Place of Birth: Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico

Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣoˈluna aleɣˈsandeɾ]; born 29 December 1979) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diego Luna, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Kiss of the Spider Woman

as    Valentín Arregui / Armando

2024
La Máquina

as    Andy Lujan

2023
Water for Life

as    Narrator

2022
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

as    Cassian Andor

2022
Andor

as    Cassian Andor

2022
Andor

as    Cassian Andor

2022
Andor

as    Cassian Andor

2022
DC League of Super-Pets

as    Chip (voice)

2022
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

as    Self - Cassian Andor / Executive Producer

2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

as    Krel (voice)

2021
Maya and the Three

as    Zatz (voice)

2020
A Rainy Day in New York

as    Francisco Vega

2020
Wander Darkly

as    Matteo

2020
Pan y Circo

as    Self - Host

2019
Berlin, I Love You

as    Drag Queen

2018
3Below: Tales of Arcadia

as    Krel (voice)

2018
Crow: The Legend

as    Moth (voice)

2017
Flatliners

as    Ray

2016
Blood Father

as    Jonah

2015
Casanova

as    Giacomo Casanova

2015
Casanova

as    Giacomo Casanova

2014
I Stay with You

as    Esteban

2014
The Book of Life

as    Manolo (voice)

2013
Elysium

as    Julio

2012
Contraband

as    Gonzalo

2012
Casa de Mi Padre

as    Raul