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.

Filmography

• 2028Tangled — Hawthorne
• 2026Ashes — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2026Eleven Days — Federico Carrasco
• 2026Hombre Al Agua — Producer
• 2026Mexico 86 — Martín de la Torre, Executive Producer
• 2026On the Road — Producer
• 2026The One That Got Away: The Director's Cut — Diego
• 2025ASCO: Without Permission — Executive Producer
• 2025Kiss of the Spider Woman — Valentín Arregui / Armando, Executive Producer
• 2025Mollusk
• 2025Thesis on a Domestication — Executive Producer
• La Máquina — Andy Lujan, Original Story, Executive Producer
• 2024State of Silence — Executive Producer
• 2023Water for Life — Narrator
• Andor — Cassian Andor, Executive Producer
• 2022DC League of Super-Pets — Chip (voice)
• Everything Will Be Fine — Director, Producer, Creator
• Maya and the Three — Zatz (voice)
• 2021Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans — Krel (voice)
• Home Movie: The Princess Bride — Inigo Montoya
• Pan y Circo — Self - Host, Director, Creator
• 2020Wander Darkly — Matteo
• 2019A Rainy Day in New York — Francisco Vega
• 2019Berlin, I Love You — Drag Queen
• 2019Chicuarotes — Associate Producer
• 3Below: Tales of Arcadia — Krel (voice)
• 2018Crow: The Legend — Moth (voice)
• 2018If Beale Street Could Talk — Pedrocito
• Mi Marido tiene Más Familia — Robert Cooper
• Narcos: Mexico — Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
• 2017Flatliners — Ray
• 2017The Bad Batch — Jimmy (uncredited)
• 2016Blood Father — Jonah
• 2016Mr. Pig — Screenplay, Director
• 2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — Cassian Andor
• 2016Salt and Fire — Executive Producer
• Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia — Krel (voice)
• 2015Casanova — Giacomo Casanova
• Casanova — Giacomo Casanova
• 2015Leagues — Executive Producer
• 2015The Chosen Ones — Executive Producer
• 2014Cesar Chavez — Producer, Director
• 2014I Stay with You — Esteban
• 2014The Book of Life — Manolo (voice)
• 2013Elysium — Julio
• 2013Paraíso — Executive Producer
• 2012Casa de Mi Padre — Raul
• 2012Contraband — Gonzalo
• 2011Miss Bala — Executive Producer
• 2010Abel — Director, Writer
• 2010Gritos D Muerte y Libertad — Guadalupe Victoria
• Gritos de Muerte y Libertad — Guadalupe Victoria
• 2010Morelos, Siervo de la Nación — Narrator
• 2010Revolución — Director
• 2009Sin Nombre — Executive Producer
• 2008I'm Gonna Explode — Executive Producer
• 2008Milk — Jack Lira
• 2008Mister Lonely — Michael Jackson
• 2008Rudo & Cursi — Beto
• 2008Walking Vengeance — Gabriel, Executive Producer
• 2007Cochochi — Executive Producer
• 2007J.C. Chavez — Director
• 2007The Night Buffalo — Manuel, Co-Producer
• 2006A Wonderful World — Reportero en Estocolmo
• 2006Drama/Mex — Executive Producer
• 2006Fade to Black — Tommaso Moreno
• 2006Only God Knows — Dàmian
• American Dad! — Mauricio (voice)
• 2005Carambola — El Perro
• 2005Stories of Disenchantment — Amante en Video
• 2004Criminal — Rodrigo
• 2004Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights — Javier Suarez
• 2004The Terminal — Enrique Cruz
• 2003Nicotina — Lolo
• 2003Open Range — Button
• 2003Soldiers of Salamina — Gastón
• 2002Dark Cities — Fede
• 2002Fidel — Renato Guitart
• Fidel — Renato Guitart
• 2002Frida — Alejandro
• 2002The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
• 2002Vampires: Los Muertos — Sancho
• 2001Never Too Young to Dream — Postman
• 2001Y Tu Mamá También — Tenoch Iturbide
• 2000Before Night Falls — Carlos
• 2000Gimme Power — Esteban
• 1999A Sweet Scent of Death — Ramon
• 1999Coapa Heights — Eric
• 1999El Cometa — Victor
• La vida en el espejo — Eugenio Román Franco
• 1999Perriférico
• 1995A Trickle of Blood — León
• 1995Morena — Dos
• 1994Amber — Muni Frahabarana
• 1992The Last New Year
• 1982Antonieta — (uncredited)
• El Día Después: Opinión Ciudadana — Producer
• I, Chihuahua — Juan (voice)
• Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin — Diego (voice)
• The Boys: Mexico

Appearances as themselves (21)

• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2022Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look — Self - Cassian Andor / Executive Producer
• 2022Soul of a Nation Presents Mi Gente: Groundbreakers and Changemakers — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2017The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' — Self
• Chelsea — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2012Made in Mexico — Self
• Conan — Self
• 2007Spielberg on Spielberg — Self (archive footage)
• The One Show — Self
• 2004Beyond the 'Open Range' — Self
• On Air with Ryan Seacrest — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest, Self - Guest Host
• 2001Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También' — Self
• The View — Self - Guest
• MTV Europe Music Awards — Self - Presenter
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee