Diego Luna Alexander (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo ˈluna alekˈsandeɾ]; born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor. 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 Cassian 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.

Diego Luna
Luna at Berlinale 2017
Born	Diego Luna Alexander (1979-12-29) 29 December 1979 (age 42)[1] Toluca, Mexico
Other names	Alexander García
Occupation	Actor director producer
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Camila Sodi ​ ​ (m. 2008; div. 2013)​
Children	2
Parent	Alejandro Luna (father)

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.[2][3][4] She died in a car accident when Luna was two years old.[5] 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.[6] Luna and his frequent co-star Gael García Bernal were friends from infancy. Their mothers were close friends.[7]

Career

Acting

Luna acted in his first play at age seven. As a child actor, he appeared in several telenovelas.[8]

Luna starred as Tenoch Iturbide alongside Gael García Bernal in Y tu mamá también (2001), a Mexican road trip film directed by Alfonso Cuarón.[8] A critical and box office success, the role brought him international stardom.[8] The film was the beginning series of high-profile collaborations with childhood friend García Bernal,[7] 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 Academy Award-winning Frida. He 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[9] (2013).^{[citation needed]}

In March 2015, Luna joined the cast of Ana Lily Amirpour's film The Bad Batch.[10]

In Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), he portrayed Cassian Andor,[11] a captain and intelligence officer of the Rebel Alliance. He reprised the role in Andor, a Disney+ series centered around the character.

Luna starred as Mexican drug cartel leader Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico,[12] which premiered in November 2018.[13]

Other work

After starring in many telenovelas,^{[citation needed]} Luna and Gael García Bernal created Canana Films in 2005.[14]

In 2012, Luna directed his first film, the biopic Cesar Chávez, about Cesar Chávez, the founder of the United Farm Workers.[15]

Luna became a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.[16]^{[better source needed]}

Luna and García Bernal co-founded Ambulante A.C., an organization and film festival working to bring documentary films to recommended places.[17] The organization received the prestigious Washington Office on Latin America's Human Rights Award in 2011.[18]^{[better source needed]} In January 2015, Luna narrated a video about the obstacles faced by children migrating from their home countries and seeking refuge in the U.S.[19][20]^{[better source needed]}

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.[21]

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.[22]

Personal life

Luna married Camila Sodi in February 2008; they were divorced in March 2013.[23] They have two children: Jerónimo (b. August 12, 2008),[24] and Fiona (b. July 1, 2010), named after Luna's mother.[25]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Awards

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diego Luna.

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