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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…
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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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Tangled
as Hawthorne
Eleven Days
as Federico Carrasco
Mexico 86
as Martín de la Torre
The One That Got Away: The Director's Cut
as Diego
Mollusk
Kiss of the Spider Woman
as Valentín Arregui / Armando
Water for Life
as Narrator
Soul of a Nation Presents Mi Gente: Groundbreakers and Changemakers
as Self
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
as Self - Cassian Andor / Executive Producer
DC League of Super-Pets
as Chip (voice)
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Krel (voice)
Wander Darkly
as Matteo
Berlin, I Love You
as Drag Queen
A Rainy Day in New York
as Francisco Vega
If Beale Street Could Talk
as Pedrocito
Crow: The Legend
as Moth (voice)
Flatliners
as Ray
The Bad Batch
as Jimmy (uncredited)
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
as Self
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Cassian Andor
Blood Father
as Jonah
Casanova
as Giacomo Casanova
I Stay with You
as Esteban
The Book of Life
as Manolo (voice)
Elysium
as Julio
Made in Mexico
as Self
Casa de Mi Padre
as Raul
Contraband
as Gonzalo
Morelos, Siervo de la Nación
as Narrator
Gritos D Muerte y Libertad
as Guadalupe Victoria
Rudo & Cursi
as Beto
Milk
as Jack Lira
Walking Vengeance
as Gabriel
Mister Lonely
as Michael Jackson
Spielberg on Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)
The Night Buffalo
as Manuel
A Wonderful World
as Reportero en Estocolmo
Fade to Black
as Tommaso Moreno
Only God Knows
as Dàmian
Carambola
as El Perro
Stories of Disenchantment
as Amante en Video
Criminal
as Rodrigo
The Terminal
as Enrique Cruz
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
as Javier Suarez
Beyond the 'Open Range'
as Self
Nicotina
as Lolo
Open Range
as Button
Soldiers of Salamina
as Gastón
Vampires: Los Muertos
as Sancho
Dark Cities
as Fede
Frida
as Alejandro
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Fidel
as Renato Guitart
Never Too Young to Dream
as Postman
Y Tu Mamá También
as Tenoch Iturbide
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
as Self
Before Night Falls
as Carlos
Gimme Power
as Esteban
A Sweet Scent of Death
as Ramon
El Cometa
as Victor
Perriférico
Coapa Heights
as Eric
A Trickle of Blood
as León
Morena
as Dos
Amber
as Muni Frahabarana
No Poster
The Last New Year
Antonieta
as (uncredited)
I, Chihuahua
as Juan (voice)
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as Diego (voice)