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

Mexico 86 2026 ★ 7.8
Kiss of the Spider Woman 2025 ★ 5.9
La Máquina 2024 ★ 6.7
Andor 2022 ★ 8.3
DC League of Super-Pets 2022 ★ 7.2
Maya and the Three 2021 ★ 7.9
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans 2021 ★ 7.5
Home Movie: The Princess Bride 2020 ★ 7.6
Narcos: Mexico 2018 ★ 7.9
3Below: Tales of Arcadia 2018 ★ 7.5
If Beale Street Could Talk 2018 ★ 6.9
Flatliners 2017 ★ 5.6
The Bad Batch 2017 ★ 5.3
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 ★ 7.5
Blood Father 2016 ★ 6.2
The Book of Life 2014 ★ 7.5
Elysium 2013 ★ 6.5
Contraband 2012 ★ 6.3
Milk 2008 ★ 7.2
American Dad! 2005 ★ 7.0
The Terminal 2004 ★ 7.4
Open Range 2003 ★ 7.2
Frida 2002 ★ 7.4
Y Tu Mamá También 2001 ★ 7.4