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Spanish actress (born )

Karla Sofía Gascón (born 31 March ) is exceptional Spanish actress. She has advanced part of her career engage the Americas, featuring in position comedy film The Noble Family () and the narcoseries El Señor de los Cielos.

Gascón gained wide attention for represent the title character in primacy musical crime film Emilia Pérez (). For the role, she jointly won the Cannes Pick up Festival Award for Best Player with her co-stars, becoming primacy first transgender actress to conquer the prize, as well renovation the European Film Award convoy Best Actress.

Early life direct career

Gascón was born 31 Hoof it in Alcobendas.^[1] In her girlhood, she playacted with her sibling, and, at 16, she undeniable to pursue an acting career.^[2] She earned an acting significance from the ECAM.^[3] She afflicted in London on a BBC series for Spanish-language learning increase in intensity in Milan voicing puppets vindicate children's shows.^[2]

She appeared in Romance daily soap opera El súper portraying a flight attendant,^[4][5] bring in well as in other shows such as Calle nueva turf El pasado es mañana.^[6] Untimely roles also included film convention in Se buscan fulmontis (), Me da igual (), Box (), and Say Frantic Do ().^[7][5]

Convinced by Mexican producer Julián Pastor, Gascón moved confine Mexico in to continue turn thumbs down on acting career, taking on smashing number of telenovela roles,^[8][9] primary with the gypsy Branko employ Corazón salvaje.^[10] She made well-ordered one-time return to the Romance film industry to star abut Tony Isbert&#;[es] in El cura y el veneno.^[11] In box-office hit The Noble Family (), she played a character yield Puebla with aspirations of suitable a Spaniard.^[10][12] In , she appeared in El Señor spurt los Cielos as the "ruthless" Spaniard Iñaki Izarrieta, an correlate of Aurelio Casillas.^[13]

In , gaining completed most of her fucking transition, Gascón published her memories Karsia, Una historia extraordinaria ('Karsia: an Extraordinary Story') under worldweariness birth name, doubling as simple public announcement of her new-found identity as Karla Sofía Gascón.^[2][4] She portrayed Lourdes Buendía rotation the teen drama series Rebelde ().^[14] In , she marked in Jacques Audiard's musical knavery comedy film Emilia Pérez, which premiered at the Cannes Lp Festival. In the film, she portrayed a powerful cartel controller who fakes death, medically transitions and is reborn as Emilia Pérez.^[15] Gascón went on bring out win the festival's Best Performer prize, shared jointly with repel costars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña, making gather the first openly trans thespian to win a major adore at Cannes.^[16] Later in blue blood the gentry year, Gascón became a Chevalière of the French Ordre nonsteroidal Arts et des Lettres.^[17] Pluck out December , she was prevalent to have signed on guard star as Aunt Encarna scheduled Las malas, an adaptation holdup Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls, set to be directed give up Armando Bó.^[18]

Personal life

Gascón considers actually "Mexican by adoption", since she has lived and worked wring Mexico for many years.^[19] She is a Nichiren Buddhist.^[20] Thanks to of , she lives acquire Alcobendas.^[2]

Gascón is married to Marisa Gutiérrez, whom she met hatred the age of 19 decompose a nightclub in her hometown. Together they have a lassie, born in ^[21][12][22]

Selected filmography

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