Jego babcia pochodzila z Rosji - "Lubezki was born into a Jewish family in Mexico City and his grandmother is from Russia. He explains, “Her family escaped to China during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. She lived in Shanghai for a while, but wanted a career as an actress in Hollywood, and convinced her family to move there. They had to stop in Mexico, because the quota restriction for immigrants in the U.S. was closed. She lived in Mexico City where she met and married my grandfather"