Mexican actor (born 1979)For the Venezuelan footballer, see Diego Luna (footballer). For the American soccer player, see Diego Luna (soccer).In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Luna and the second or maternal family name is Alexander.

Diego Luna Alexander (Spanish pronunciation::; born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, singer, director, and producer. Following a career in Mexican telenovelas, he has appeared in films including Y tu mamá también; Open Range; Milk; Rudo y Cursi; Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights; The Terminal; and Berlin, I Love You. He plays C*ian Andor in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Andor and drug trafficker Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in the first two seasons of Narcos: Mexico.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Acting
  • 2.2 Other work
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Filmography
  • 4.1 Film
  • 4.2 Television
  • 4.3 Music videos
• 5 Awards
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early life

Luna was born in Toluca and raised in Mexico City. His mother, Fiona Alexander, was a British costume designer of Scottish and English descent. She died in a car accident when Luna was two years old. His father, Alejandro Luna, is a theater, film, and opera set designer who reinforced the importance of theater and the arts in his life. Alejandro would bring Diego to the sets and mentor him in different aspects of art, cultivating a desire to become an actor and uphold the family tradition. Luna and his frequent co-star Gael García Bernal were friends from infancy. Their mothers were close friends.

Career

Acting

Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Julia Jentsch at Berlinale 2017

Luna acted in his first play at age seven. As a child actor, he appeared in several telenovelas.

Luna starred as Tenoch Iturbide alongside Gael García Bernal in Y tu mamá también (2001), a Mexican road trip movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón. A critical and box office success, the role brought him international stardom. The film also was the beginning series of high-profile collaborations with childhood friend García Bernal, with whom he would costar in several films and go on to establish Canana Films.

In 2002, Luna starred in Vampires: Los Muertos and the Oscar-winning Frida. He also appeared in Open Range (2003), The Terminal (2004) alongside Tom Hanks, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) (a Cuban-based reimagining of Dirty Dancing), Criminal (2004), Only God Knows (2006), Fade to Black (2006), Mister Lonely (2007), Rudo y Cursi (2008), Just Walking (2008), Milk (2008), and Elysium (2013).

In March 2015, Luna joined the cast of Ana Lily Amirpour's film The Bad Batch.

In Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), he portrayed C*ian Andor, a captain and intelligence officer of the Rebel Alliance, starring alongside Felicity Jones. He will reprise the role in an upcoming Disney+ series centered around the character. In December 2020, he confirmed that the production of the series has begun in London on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

Luna starred as Mexican drug cartel leader Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, which premiered in November 2018.

Other work

Diego and Felicity Jones at the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in *an.

After starring in many telenovelas, Luna and Gael García Bernal created Canana Films in 2005.

In 2012, Luna directed his first film, the biopic Cesar Chávez, about the eponymous founder of the United Farm Workers.

Luna became a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.

Luna and García Bernal co-founded Ambulante A.C., an organization and film festival working to bring do*entary films to recommended places. The organization received the prestigious Washington Office on Latin America's Human Rights Award in 2011. In January 2015, Luna narrated a video about the obstacles faced by children migrating from their home countries and seeking refuge in the US.

In October 2019 Luna and García Bernal announced they were joining the Creative Advisory Board for TV and Film development company EXILE Content along with Adam Grant.

In 2021, he received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Talent in a Spanish Language Program for his Amazon Prime Video talk show Pan y Circo.

Personal life

Luna married Camila Sodi in February 2008; they were divorced in March 2013. They have two children: Jerónimo (b. August 12, 2008), and Fiona (b. July 1, 2010), named after Luna's mother.

Filmography

Luna at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

Film

Television

Luna in 2017

Music videos

Awards

References

External links

• Diego Luna at IMDb
• Diego Luna on Twitter