Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1372
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Diego Luna represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Diego is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Diego Luna appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Diego. Mexico 86 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gabriel Ripstein, Bill Condon, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and others, Diego Luna helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Mexico 86 (2026) as Martín de la Torre · Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021) as Krel (voice) · Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Cassian Andor
Career snapshot
Ranked #1372 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Mexico 86
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Mexico 86
Most frequent director
Gabriel Ripstein
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gabriel Ripstein
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Milk, The Terminal, Criminal — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.0
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Milk, The Terminal, Criminal.
Most productive era
2010s
11 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.24 films | 6.16 films | 6.63 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | 6.45 films | 7.61 film |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 6.05 films | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 5.92 films | 7.52 films |
| Crime | — | 6.41 film | — |
| Romance | 7.41 film | 6.23 films | 6.02 films |
| Horror | — | 5.52 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Carlos.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Mexico 86
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Martín de la Torre.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
22 of 22 films
as Martín de la Torre
Directed by Gabriel Ripstein
as Manolo (voice)
Directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez
as Cassian Andor
Directed by Gareth Edwards
as Enrique Cruz
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Krel (voice)
Directed by Francisco Ruiz Velasco
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Martín de la Torre
Mexico 86 (2026)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Martín de la Torre gives Diego Luna a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Manolo (voice)
The Book of Life (2014)
Performance score8.1
The Book of Life asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manolo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cassian Andor
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Performance score7.8
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cassian Andor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Enrique Cruz
The Terminal (2004)
Performance score7.6
The Terminal asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Enrique Cruz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Martín de la Torre
Start here. Mexico 86 is the clearest statement of what Diego Luna does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Diego at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Terminal (2004)
Keeps the comedy register of Mexico 86 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Book of Life (2014)
A deliberate change of key after The Terminal — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
A deliberate change of key after The Book of Life — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
Keeps the action register of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Julie Taymor
Director
1 film together
Notably Frida
Gregory Jacobs
Director
1 film together
Notably Criminal
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Terminal
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Milk
Matt Piedmont
Director
1 film together
Notably Casa de Mi Padre
Baltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together
Notably Contraband
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Life
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Ana Lily Amirpour
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bad Batch
Niels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together
Notably Flatliners
Barry Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably If Beale Street Could Talk
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably A Rainy Day in New York
Josef Rusnak
Director
1 film together
Notably Berlin, I Love You
Tara Miele
Director
1 film together
Notably Wander Darkly
Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together
Notably Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably Kiss of the Spider Woman
Gabriel Ripstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Mexico 86
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Gabriel Ripstein
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mexico 86Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trollhunters: Rise of the TitansGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryJorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Book of LifeSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TerminalJulie Taymor
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FridaGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MilkBarry Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
If Beale Street Could TalkWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Rainy Day in New YorkBaltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ContrabandGregory Jacobs
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CriminalTara Miele
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wander DarklyBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kiss of the Spider WomanNiels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlatlinersAna Lily Amirpour
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bad BatchMatt Piedmont
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Casa de Mi PadreJosef Rusnak
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Berlin, I Love YouSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Terminal
as Enrique Cruz
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Book of Life
as Manolo (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mexico 86
as Martín de la Torre
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Bad Batch
as Jimmy (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mexico 86
as Martín de la Torre
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Diego Luna has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
26 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Book of Life
as Manolo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Krel (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Kiss of the Spider Woman
as Valentín Arregui / Armando
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Book of Life
as Manolo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Krel (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Krel (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mexico 86
as Martín de la Torre
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Terminal
as Enrique Cruz
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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