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Diego Luna is a Mexican television actor, film producer, film actor, and film director. Born on December 29, 1979, in Toluca de Lerdo, he has been active in his profession since 1987. He is a citizen of Mexico and resides in Mexico City. Luna speaks Spanish and English. He is married to Camila Sodi and has two children. His father is Alejandro Luna, and his sibling is Iván Amozurrutia. He was educated at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
Luna has received the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast, the Marcello Mastroianni Award, and recognition in the Time 100 collection. He has been nominated for the Goya Award for Best Actor, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1989
- Works
- 3
Top works
- ZAJ
- Muntadas
- El giro crítico del arte
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Film & TV
Acting · Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico
Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣoˈluna aleɣˈsandeɾ]; born 29 December 1979) 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…
Known for
- The Boys: Mexico2028
- Mexico 86 — Martín de la Torre2026
- The One That Got Away: The Director's Cut — Diego2026
- Kiss of the Spider Woman — Valentín Arregui / Armando2025
- Mollusk2025
- La Máquina — Andy Lujan2024
- Water for Life — Narrator2023
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2023
- Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look — Self - Cassian Andor / Executive Producer2022
- Soul of a Nation Presents Mi Gente: Groundbreakers and Changemakers — Self2022
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7,921
- Total plays
- 60,266
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,947x
- jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing
· 2012 · cited 14,779x
- <i>Planck</i>
2018 results
· 2020 · cited 13,339x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,992x
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1979
- Nationality
- MX
- Role / Field
- Actors, Television producers and directors, Productores de cine, Motion picture producers and directors, Directores de cine, Television production and direction
- Language
- eng, spa
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 19 libraries
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Key facts
- Born
- Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander , ( 1979-12-29 ) 29 December 1979 (age 46) , Toluca , State of Mexico , Mexico
- Other name
- Alexander García
- Occupations
- Actor director producer
- Years active
- 1987–present
- Spouse
- Camila Sodi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2013 )
- Parents
- Alejandro Luna † (father) Fiona Alexander † (mother)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Diego
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Place of birth
- Toluca de Lerdo
- Spouse
- Camila Sodi
- Sibling
- Iván Amozurrutia
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Time 100
- Image
- Diego Luna - Andor.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Mexico City
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- Commons category
- Diego Luna
- date of birth
- 1979-12-29
- second family name in Spanish name
- Q1511218
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- social media followers
- 2803014
- name in native language
- Diego Luna
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diego Luna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.