Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 29, 1979
Place of Birth
Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico
Credits
121 titles
Diego Luna
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
Ashes
Director
On the Road
Producer
Mexico 86
Martín de la Torre
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
ASCO: Without Permission
Executive Producer
La Máquina
Andy Lujan
State of Silence
Executive Producer
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Water for Life
Narrator
Andor
Cassian Andor
Soul of a Nation Presents Mi Gente: Groundbreakers and Changemakers
Self
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Self - Cassian Andor / Executive Producer
DC League of Super-Pets
Chip (voice)
Maya and the Three
Zatz (voice)
Everything Will Be Fine
Director
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Krel (voice)
Wander Darkly
Matteo
Pan y Circo
Self - Host
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
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Cassian Andor
Salt and Fire
Executive Producer
Blood Father
Jonah
Mr. Pig
Director
Chelsea
Self
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
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 - Guest
Leagues
Executive Producer
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
I Stay with You
Esteban
The Book of Life
Manolo (voice)
Cesar Chavez
Producer