Diego Luna

Diego Luna was introduced to worldwide audiences with his starring role in the award-winning Y Tu Mamá También, alongside lifelong friend Gael García Bernal, for director Alfonso Cuarón.

Beginning his professional acting career on stage at the age of seven and making his television debut at age 12 in El abuelo y yo, Luna has appeared on stage in such theater productions as De película, La tarea (based on Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s movie of the same name), Comedia clandestina and El cántaro roto, for which he accepted the 1996/1997 Masculine Revelation Award from the Association of Theatre Reviewers. Under the direction of Antonio Serrano (Sex, Shame & Tears), he performed Sabina Berman’s Molière. He produced The Complete Works of William Shakespeare in Mexico, for which he won the 2001/2002 Best Comic Actor Award from the Association of Theatre Reviewers.

Luna’s feature film directorial debut, Abel, about a peculiar boy who assumes the role of the man of the house, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Luna directed the documentary J. C. Chávez, which explores the life of legendary boxer Julio César Chávez and premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. J.C. Chavez was created under the banner of Canana Films, the international film and television production company based in Mexico City that Luna founded with Bernal and producer Pablo Cruz. The company focuses on story-based projects of Latin American origin, with a worldwide market perspective. Canana Films produced Luna’s film Abel and Bernal’s directorial debut, Déficit, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.

Additionally, Luna has starred in a number of short films made by students at Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos and Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, including Javier Bourges’ the Oscar®-winning short film, The Last New Year.

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