Diego Boneta

The 2012 NCLR ALMA Awards - Arrivals

Boneta in 2012, photo by PR Photos

Birth Name: Diego Andrés González Boneta

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Date of Birth: 29 November, 1990

Ethnicity: Mexican-Puerto Rican-Spanish, as well as distant/small amounts of Swiss-French and German

Diego Boneta is a Mexican singer, songwriter, actor, and producer. His roles include the films Rock of Ages, City of Dead Men, Eden, Pelé: Birth of a Legend, Before I Fall, The Titan, Terminator: Dark Fate, New Order, Love, Weddings & Other Disasters, Monster Hunter, Die in a Gunfight, Father of the Bride (2022), At Midnight, and Mean Girls 2, and the shows Rebelde, Scream Queens, and Luis Miguel: The Series. His songs include “Responde.”

He is the son of Astrid Boneta López and Lauro Andrés González Lima. His parents are engineers. Diego’s father is Mexican. Some of Diego’s father’s lines can be traced back to Spain, in the 1500s. Diego’s mother was born in the United States, to a Puerto Rican father and a Spanish mother. Diego has Mexican, American, and Spanish citizenship. He first became known as a performer in Mexico.

Diego has said:

I don’t consider myself 50-50… I’m 100 percent Mexican and 100 percent American.

Diego’s paternal grandfather is Manuel González Cenoz (the son of José González Sandoval and Dolores Cenoz Kattain). Dolores was the daughter of Juan Andrés/André Cenoz Juanena, who was from Navarra, Spain, and of Ana María Kattain/Katthain Serment, who had German and Swiss ancestry, with roots in Geneva.

Diego’s paternal grandmother is Ana María Lima Moreno (the daughter of Roberto Lima Sánchez and Ana María Moreno González). Diego’s grandmother Ana María was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico. Roberto was the son of Trinidad Lima and Natalia Sánchez. Diego’s great-grandmother Ana María was the daughter of Francisco Moreno Villalobos and Josefina González Rangel.

Diego’s maternal grandfather was Otto Fitzhugh Woodrow Boneta Morales (the son of Narciso Luis Carlos Boneta y Colón and Providencia Morales Otero). Diego’s grandfather Otto was Puerto Rican, born in Rio Grande, and was a songwriter and psychiatrist. Narciso Luis was born in Arecibo Municipality, Puerto Rico, the son of Tomás Boneta y Bolet and Eulogia Colón y Alvarez. Providencia was born in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, the daughter of Julio Morales and Fabriana Otero Rodriguez.

Diego’s maternal grandmother is named Josefa Lopez Cayuela (the daughter of Ana Maria Cayuela).

Sources: Mention of Diego’s background – http://cine.univision.com

Genealogy of Diego Boneta – http://www.geni.com

Genealogy of Diego’s paternal grandfather, Manuel González Cenoz (focusing on his own mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com

Genealogies of Diego’s paternal great-great-grandparents, Juan Andrés/André Cenoz Juanena and Ana María Kattain/Katthain Serment – http://gw.geneanet.org

Diego’s maternal grandfather, Otto Fitzhugh Woodrow Boneta Morales, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Diego’s maternal great-grandfather, Narciso Luis Carlos Boneta y Colón, on the 1910 Puerto Rican Census – https://familysearch.org
Narciso Luis Carlos Boneta y Colón on the 1920 Puerto Rican Census – https://familysearch.org

Diego’s maternal great-grandmother, Providencia Morales Otero, on the 1910 Puerto Rican Census – https://familysearch.org

87 Responses

  1. Princess says:

    He looks Haitian.

    • Euro says:

      Wrong post or just trolling? I came here because my sister rent the worst movie I ever seen: Rock of Ages. This guy was cast as a white boy not as a black person in the movie.Everyone think that I look like him(my friends and family). Only I have blue eyes and my hair is lighter. I though he was Spaniard. I am a white dutch man. Never been call black in my life.Hiatian people may be white. Little did I know.

  2. Caution says:

    He looks fully white, his parents were clearly of European ancestry. White Latinos.

    • WTF says:

      no he doesn’t. he clearly has native influences

      • Euro says:

        WTF, He looks white. I look like him and I am Dutch. Yes, I am consider good looking.There is a reason why he was cast as a white guy in an American movie.After looking at the comments I thinking most Americans confuse race with nationality or have never travel outside there own country.They are many people who are consider white in the USA but are obviously mixed people(Kim Kardashian) and are not consider white in Europe.His facial feactures are of a white person.

        • Dogg says:

          He’s MOSTLY white. But all “white” Latinos have non-white blood.

        • Dogg says:

          All white Latinos have non-white blood. Latinos classify their race based on skin colour because obviously they know nothing about their racial history, as Latin-Americans are so mixed up these days. If a Latino has white skin and white facial features, they’ll classify themselves as white regardless of how much Native American or Black ancestry they have. A Castizo or Latino of 1/3 Native American ancestry could identify as white depending on how European they look.

          • J.J. says:

            there’s no such thing as “white skin”, skin tones of the white race vary significantly. White in regards to skin tone is used metaphorically and the term now is branded towards particularly ethnicities and phenotypes of the “caucasian” race. White skin is non existent as is black skin, if you wish to refer to white people with rather light skin the word “fair” is often seen as appropriate.

    • alberto.r7 says:

      I am agree. He is “criollo” that means of Spanish ancestry at least 7/8, so he is white.

      • Alice says:

        J.J’s eye colour classifications are bizarre.

        • follers says:

          Diego Boneta looks like Mitt Romney (who also had a Mexican father).

          • ihatemostpeople says:

            NO, his father is not ethnically MEXICAN. He is WHITE, but was LIVING in Mexico. He DOESN’T have MEXICAN blood in him. He is WHITE as freshly fallen snow.

          • ihatemostpeople says:

            OH and I forgot to say that he doesn’t look like Romney whatsoever. EWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! What an insult to Diego. Diego is hot and Romney is ugly as hell!!!!!!!!

          • follers says:

            I know all about Mitt Romney’s ancestry. But to deny that he looks like Diego is madness.

          • Dogg says:

            WHAAAA? I didn’t know that….

        • J.J. says:

          correction; his eyes are certainly not brown, my eye colour classifications are not bizarre they’re just extremely accurate because I’m actually taking time to look these celebrities up on google images and zooming in on large pictures in order to see their true eye colour rather than going off small distant pictures that tell nothing, a person with green eyes could look blue in distant photos and a person with amber eyes could look plain brown in distant photos, this guys eyes are most definitely not brown, they’re green or at least a forest green (green w brown)

          • follers says:

            But his eyes look brown to me.

          • J.J. says:

            correction; well they’re not brown they’re green, look the celebrity up on google images and zoom in

          • follers says:

            Green eyes are like Robert Pattinson or James Wolk. Boneta doesn’t have them.

          • J.J. says:

            correction; why are you arguing a point that clearly doesn’t need to be argued, his eyes are not brown, they’re green or if you prefer forest green (green w brown). As for james wolk yes his eyes do appear to be green and they are quite pretty but if you zoom in his are actually blue with brown around the pupil, no ones eyes are solidly green, however eyes can be solidly brown and Diego’s are most definitely not. I’ve noticed quite a few people lately back lashing at my corrections like I’m some loser who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, it’s quite uncalled for

          • follers says:

            I am starting to yearn for those days 8000 years ago when everybody in the world had the same eye color.

          • J.J. says:

            I think you’re gonna have to go back more than 8000 years to when everyone had virtually black hair and eyes, blue eyes and blonde hair along with all the other colours resulted from mixing have been around longer than 8000 years

          • ethnic says:

            You may have to go even further back than 8000 years. Lol

          • follers says:

            As I understand it, blue eyes are a genetic mutation that first appeared about 8000 years ago, in the area that is now southern Bulgaria. Before that, everyone had the same eye color.

          • Alice says:

            The mutation for blue eyes occurred 6,000 – 10,000 years ago. Read about it here.

            http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm

          • follers says:

            Averages out to 8,000!

          • Alice says:

            Yes. I was backing up what you said with the article.

  3. follers says:

    Ethnic, I wonder if you could crop the picture, please? Otherwise it shows up badly in featured posts.

  4. AnonymousPerson says:

    He’s cute!

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