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Also known as Diego Luna Alexander

Mexican actor (1979-)

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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.

Synthesized by Vinony from 45 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, VIAF, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1989
Works
3

Top works

  • ZAJ
  • Muntadas
  • El giro crítico del arte

via Open Library + Wikidata

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

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Mexico
Active from
1979

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7,921
Total plays
60,266

Tags

mexicanSoundtrackactor

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Diego+Luna">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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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

via VIAF · OCLC

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)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Diego
Gender
male
Citizenship
Mexico
Place of birth
Toluca de Lerdo
Occupation
screenwriter
Languages spoken
English language
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.

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