Diego Luna

Diego Luna
Luna at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Diego Luna Alexander (1979-12-29) 29 December 1979 Mexico City, Mexico
Other names	Alexander García
Occupation	Actor director producer
Years active	1982–present
Spouse(s)	Camila Sodi (m. 2008; div. 2013)
Children	2

Diego Luna Alexander (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo ˈluna]; born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, producer and director. After starring in telenovelas early in his career, he has appeared in many films, including Y tu mamá también, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Rudo y Cursi and the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One. He also provided the Spanish language narration for the National Geographic Channel documentary Great Migrations.

He is also one of the founders for Canana Films.

Early life

Luna was born in Mexico City. His mother, Fiona Alexander was a British costume designer,^[1] who worked in the film industry and made sure that it was a life in which he would be immersed.^[2] Fiona died in a car accident when Luna was two years old.^[3] His father, Alejandro is an acclaimed theatre, film and opera set designer,^[4] who reinforced the importance of theatre and the arts in his life. When Luna was a child, Alejandro would bring him to the sets and mentor him in different aspects of art, cultivating a desire to become an actor and uphold the family tradition.

Career

Luna at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

Luna starred in the telenovela El Abuelo y Yo (1992). In 1995, he played the troubled son in El premio mayor. Luna and Gael García Bernal starred in the critical acclaimed film Y tu mamá también (2001).

Luna has made a name for himself in the United States market, having starred alongside Jon Bon Jovi in Vampires: Los Muertos (2002) and the Academy Award-winning Frida (2002). He also starred in Open Range, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, The Terminal and Criminal. In 2008, he starred in the Harvey Milk biopic Milk as his emotionally unstable lover, Jack Lira. Luna and Bernal own Canana Films, which jointly produce a number of television documentaries about the unsolved murders of over three hundred women in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, along with Golden Phoenix Productions (owned by Tom Golden).^[5]

In 2011, Luna played the male lead in Katy Perry's music video for "The One That Got Away".^[6] In June 2012, he directed his first English-language film Cesar Chávez, a biopic about the life of the American labor leader, who founded the United Farm Workers.^[7][8] During the same year, Luna and Bernal starred together for the fourth time for the American Spanish-language film Casa de Mi Padre.^[9] On 20 March 2015, he joined the cast for Ana Lily Amirpour's cannibal film The Bad Batch.^[10] In 2016, he was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.^[11] He played Cassian Andor in the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One.

Personal life

Luna married Camila Sodi on 5 February 2008. They had a son, Jerónimo (born 12 August 2008),^[12] and a daughter, Fiona (born 1 July 2010), named after Luna's mother.^[13] They announced their separation in March 2013 and later divorced.^[14] He has been dating English actress and model Suki Waterhouse since 2015.^[15]

He and García Bernal co-founded Ambulante A.C., their organization and film festival^[16] that works to bring documentary films to places where they are rarely shown. Ambulante was awarded the prestigious Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) Human Rights Award in 2011.^[17] Luna sits on WOLA's Board of Directors,^[18] and narrated a WOLA video examining the barriers that Mexican students of migrant children fleeing violence in their home country face when seeking refuge in the United States in January 2015.^[19]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

References

External links

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