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Diego Luna
Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico
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+ seri…
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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.
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2028
Tangled
Movie Hawthorne
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2026
Ashes
Movie Director
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2026
Hombre al agua
Movie Producer
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2026
Eleven Days
Movie Federico Carrasco
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2026
On the Road
Movie Producer
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2026
Mexico 86
Movie Martín de la Torre
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2026
The One That Got Away: The Director's Cut
Movie Diego
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2025
Mollusk
Movie
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2025
Thesis on a Domestication
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Movie Valentín Arregui / Armando
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2025
ASCO: Without Permission
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
La Máquina
TV show Andy Lujan
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2024
State of Silence
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2023
Water for Life
Movie Narrator
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2022
Andor
TV show Cassian Andor
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- 2022
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2022
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Movie Self - Cassian Andor / Executive Producer
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2022
DC League of Super-Pets
Movie Chip (voice)
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2021
Maya and the Three
TV show Zatz (voice)
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2021
Everything Will Be Fine
TV show Director
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2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Movie Krel (voice)
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2020
Wander Darkly
Movie Matteo
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2020
Pan y Circo
TV show Self - Host
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2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
TV show Inigo Montoya
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2019
Berlin, I Love You
Movie Drag Queen
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
A Rainy Day in New York
Movie Francisco Vega
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2019
Chicuarotes
Movie Associate Producer
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2018
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
TV show Krel (voice)
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2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
Movie Pedrocito
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2018
Narcos: Mexico
TV show Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
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2018
Crow: The Legend
Movie Moth (voice)
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2018
Mi Marido tiene Más Familia
TV show Robert Cooper
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2017
Flatliners
Movie Ray
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2017
The Bad Batch
Movie Jimmy (uncredited)
- 2017
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2016
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
TV show Krel (voice)
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2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Movie Cassian Andor
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2016
Salt and Fire
Movie Executive Producer
