Diego Luna

Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Julia Jentsch at Berlinale 2017

Luna acted in his first play at age seven. As a child actor, he appeared in several telenovelas.[7]

Luna starred as Tenoch Iturbide in Y Tu Mamá También (2001), a Mexican road trip movie.[7] This role brought him international stardom.[7]

In 2002, Luna starred in Vampires: Los Muertos and the Oscar-winning Frida. He also appeared in Open Range (2003), The Terminal (2004) alongside Tom Hanks, Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2 (2004) (a Cuban-based sequel to Dirty Dancing), Criminal (2004), Only God Knows (2006), Fade to Black (2006), Mister Lonely (2007), Rudo y Cursi (2008), Just Walking (2008), Milk (2008), and Elysium[8] (2013).

In March 2015, Luna joined the cast of Ana Lily Amirpour's film The Bad Batch.[9]

In Rogue One (2016), he played Cassian Andor,[10] the ally of Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). He will reprise the role in an upcoming Disney+ series centered around the character. In December 2020, he confirmed that the production of the series has begun in London on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Luna starred as Mexican drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo in the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico,[11] which premiered in November 2018.[12]

Diego and Felicity Jones at the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in Japan.

After starring in many telenovelas, Luna and Gael García Bernal created Canana Films in 2005.[13]

In 2012, Luna directed his first film, the biopic Cesar Chávez, about the eponymous founder of the United Farm Workers.[14]

Luna became a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.[15]

Luna and García Bernal co-founded Ambulante A.C., an organization and film festival working to bring documentary films to recommended places.[16] The organization received the prestigious Washington Office on Latin America's Human Rights Award in 2011.[17] In January 2015, Luna narrated a video about the obstacles faced by children migrating from their home countries and seeking refuge in the US.[18][19]

In October 2019 Luna and García Bernal announced they were joining the Creative Advisory Board for TV and Film development company EXILE Content along with Adam Grant.[20]