Actor film producer television actor
Luna was born in Mexico City, the son of Fiona Alexander, a British costume designer and Alejandro Luna, a Mexican set designer who is one of the most acclaimed living theatre, cinema and opera set designers in Mexico. His mother died in a car accident when he was two years old. His father also reinforced the importance of theater and the arts in his life.
He also starred with Romola Garai in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and provides the Spanish language narration for the National Geographic Channel documentary Great Migrations. From an early age, Luna began acting in television, film and stage, his film debut was Antonieta (1982). In 1995, he played the role of Laura León"s troubled son Quique in the Mexican soap opera El premio mayor.
Luna had his big break, when he was cast in the critically acclaimed Y tu mamá también (2001), once again alongside Bernal.
He was also in the western 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 Productions which is recently joined with Golden Phoenix Productions (owned by producer Tom Golden of Hot Springs, Arkansas) to jointly produce a number of television documentaries about the unsolved murders of more than 300 women in the border city of Ciudad Juárez. Foreign the fourth time, Luna and Bernal starred in the American Spanish-language comedy film Casa de Mi Padre with Will Ferrell.
In 2011, Luna played the male lead in Katy Perry"s music video, "The One That Got Away".
In June 2012, he began directing his first English-language film Cesar Chávez, a biopic about the life of American labor eponymous leader, who founded the United Farm Workers. In March 2015, he joins the cast for Ana Lily Amirpour"s cannibal romance film The Bad Batch.
