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Karla Sofía Gascón
Gascón in 2024
Born	Juan Carlos Gascón (1972-03-31) 31 March 1972 (age 52) Alcobendas, Spain
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Marisa Gutiérrez
Children	1

Karla Sofía Gascón (born 31 March 1972) is a Spanish actress. She came to attention appearing in a number of telenovelas and films, including El Señor de los Cielos (2013) and The Noble Family (2013).

Gascón gained wide attention for portraying the title character in the musical crime film Emilia Pérez (2024). For the role, she jointly won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress with her co-stars, becoming the first transgender actress to win the prize. Additionally, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, becoming the first transgender woman nominated in a film acting category.

Early life and career

Karla Sofía Gascón was born 31 March 1972 in Alcobendas.

She began her career after earning an acting degree from the ECAM. She appeared in Spanish daily soap opera El súper portraying a flight attendant. Early roles also included film appearances in Se buscan fulmontis [es] (1999), Me da igual (2000), Box 507 (2002), and Say I Do (2004).

Convinced by Mexican filmmaker Julián Pastor, Gascón moved to Mexico in 2009 to continue her acting career, taking on a number of telenovela roles, starting with the gypsy Branko in Corazón salvaje.

She appeared in El Señor de los Cielos. She made a one-time return to the Spanish film industry to star alongside Tony Isbert [es] in El cura y el veneno. In box-office hit The Noble Family (2013), she played a character from Puebla with aspirations of becoming a Spaniard. Until 2018, she was credited as Juan Carlos Gascón.

She came out as trans woman in 2016, and in 2018, she began undergoing gender transition.

She portrayed Lourdes Buendía in the teen drama series Rebelde (2022).

In 2024, she starred as the title character in Jacques Audiard's musical crime comedy film Emilia Pérez, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Gascón went on to win the festival's Best Actress prize, shared jointly with her costars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña, making her the first openly trans performer to win a major prize at Cannes.

In October 2024, Gascón became a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.

In December 2024, she was reported to have signed on to star as Aunt Encarna in Las malas, an adaptation of Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls, set to be directed by Armando Bó.

Personal life

Gascón considers herself "Mexican by adoption", since she has lived and worked in Mexico for many years.

Gascón is married to Marisa Gutiérrez, whom she met at the age of 19 at a nightclub in her hometown. Together they have a daughter, born in 2011.

In 2018, aged 46, Gascón published her autobiography, Karsia, Una historia extraordinaria.

Selected filmography

Accolades

References

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External links

• Karla Sofía Gascón at IMDb 

• 1972 births
• 21st-century Spanish actresses
• Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
• Living people
• Spanish film actresses
• Spanish telenovela actresses
• Spanish transgender actresses
• People from Alcobendas
• Actresses from the Community of Madrid
• Recipients of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• European Film Award for Best Actress winners