Diego Luna

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Date of Birth: 1979-12-29 (age 46)
Nationality: Mexico

Mini Bio

Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo ˈluna aleɣˈsandeɾ]; born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Cassian Andor in Rogue One (2016) and its prequel series Andor (2022–2025), for which he was nominated twice 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 Elysium, 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 theater productions and produced both film and television projects, many with 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.

Backstage

Best friends with Gael García Bernal since childhood.
His favorite movies are Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994).
Co-founder of the production company "Canana Films" along with childhood friend and fellow actor Gael García Bernal and Mexican producer Pablo Cruz in 2005. The company focuses on Mexican - and Latin American-themed features that deal with social justice issues. Luna and García they left the production company in 2018.
Wife, Camila Sodi, gave birth to their second child, a daughter named Fiona, on July 1, 2010. The baby is named after Diego's mother who passed away when he was two.
His favorite actors are Javier Bardem and Vincent Gallo.
His father is Mexican. His mother was British, of Scottish and English descent, and was the daughter of Robert Love Alexander and Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Spring.
Sang with Zoe Saldaña on the song "No Matter Where You Are" for the soundtrack for The Book of Life (2014).
Was in a relationship with Suki Waterhouse (2015-2018).
Met ex-wife Camila Sodi on the set of The Night Buffalo (2007). They split up in 2013.
His mother, Fiona Alexander, died in 1982.
"\[on ideal women\] Someone who surprises me, someone who makes me laugh, and someone who has her own life and wants to share that with me. I hate those relationships where someone is just following the other person around, you know?"
"\[on Hollywood\] This is the place where they make the most movies and I want to work here. But I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about. I wish someday that a movie like Y Tu Mama could be made in America."
"\[on living in Mexico\] I still have my house in Mexico City. In fact, when I'm there, I perform in a play called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Whenever I have a chance, I go to Mexico to be in it. This year has been a bit crazy for me. I haven't been in my country at all."
"\[on Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)\] That was the greatest movie that I've been in so far and the one I love the most, I had the chance to work with my best friend and a director that I admire a lot. I won a lot confidence in my work after that."
"I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire."
"No, though, I'm not a dancer. I'm a one routine dancer. I can do what"
"I'm a terrible dancer. I need to be really drunk and see a beautiful girl over there. It was a way of getting close to a girl without having to speak because always, whenever I opened my mouth, they would leave. So, dancing was a chance to keep them close."
"\[on Y Tu Mamá También (2001)\] When you do something small but you put your whole heart into it, it can be very powerful. It can change your whole world. This movie made it possible for me to work in Spain and in Hollywood, and it brought me the attention to do interviews in a country that is not mine. I think one of the things that made the movie so successful here is that it's not a movie that you can imagine being made in America."
"\[when asked what the most important thing is in life\] That's easy: having someone to love and being loved. And having the chance to work with people I admire. Those are my priorities."
"\[when asked the most outrageous thing that's happened to him since becoming famous\] Meeting kids who have been named Diego because of me. It's like \[I want to say to the parents\], "Oh, why are you doing that? If you're my fan, it's your problem, but it's not your son's problem!"."

TV Series

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