Biography
Chando Erik Luna was born in Madrid, shooting his earliest high-profile commercial at age 3, starring a baby shampoo commercial. Since then, he has graced the pages of more than 150 magazines and has been featured in fashion shows for Armani, Valentino, Versace, Ralph Laurent, Kenzo, Castelbajac, Evisu, Adidas or O'Neill. He has also posed for famous photographers like Francesco Scavullo, Stephen Wayda, Paolo Pellegrin, Ute Ville, Tatjana Bach, Jesús Aparicio, Valero Rioja, Maurek Poggiante, Dani Piedrabuena, Belkalem and more. Throughout his formation as an actor, he continued to work as a model, frequently appearing in swim- and sportswear - and even posing naked for a magazine and art gallery. Besides his work as a model, Luna made his debut on TV as part of the cast of the German late night show Zimmer Frei (2014) for a single season. The same year, he also accepted some guest star roles on soap operas such as Verbotene Liebe, Unter uns and Alles was zählt. After some years living in America and Germany, he moved back to Spain in 2015 and worked in some theater plays including After the fall, The sire or Felices para siempre.Chando has also been casted in different short films, including Alienigenas (2015) , After the fall (2015), Muérete mi amor (2017) or El resto de nuestras vidas (2018).In 2019, Luna received critical acclaim for his role in Muérete mi amor, in which he co-starred with Leni Rico, and received the 'Best actor in foreign LGBTQ' award at the Côte d' Azur Web Fest.In 2020, Chando Erik Luna made his debut as a film director, co-directing and co-producing with Rubén Pascual Tardío the drama Adiós Susana, in which he was also featured as an actor alongside Spanish actresses Laura Arjona, Cristina Piaget, Leni Rico or Alina Nastase and movie & TV star Beatriz Rico. Luna has been hounded by paparazzi during his time as a model, and stories about his romantic life filled countless tabloid columns across Italy and South America . Throughout this time, he consistently turned down offers to appear in different movies and shows, including Celebrity Big Brother or Temptation Island.In 2018, Chando publicly came out as Bisexual in a TV interview for an Italian show. Since then, he has become an outspoken LGBTQ+ and AIDS rights activist.Since 2017, Chando Erik lives in Switzerland, occasionally traveling to Los Angeles, Madrid or Milan for special work projects. Luna started modeling when he was a child and from an early age he loved surf. Luna has Spanish, Danish, Caribbean and Lebanese roots. He married Svenja Born in 2012 in California, they separated in 2014. He dated Spanish photographer Elizabeth Balboa in 2015 but the couple separated a few months later. Years after Chando dated tv iconic star Grecia Colmenares who was twenty five years older than him. The model also dated Spanish fellow model Ana Oliva, Hollywood Actress Leni Rico, American water polo player Alex Dando, Austrian politician Gebi Mair, Italian Model Salvatore Vita, German Business man Stephan Kaune and Spanish economist Juan Tree for 5 years.
Named one of Arena magazine's 50 Most Beautiful Male Models in the world in 2015.
