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Where is Karla Sofía Gascón from? The career and personal life of the nominated actress for “Emilia Pérez”

Here’s everything you need to know about Karla Sofía Gascón.

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Update: Feb 28th, 2025 12:48 EST

You probably didn’t know who Karla Sofía Gascón was before watching Emilia Pérez, but you certainly do now. The Spanish actor rose to household name status after performing brilliantly in the 2024 crime film, and is now up for Oscar nomination.

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Thanks to a sensational year on our screens, Gascón was present at the Cannes Film Festival Award where she won the Best Actress award, along with three female co-stars, becoming the first transgender actress to win the prize. She also took home the European Film Award for Best Actress.

Gascón grew up in Spain before moving abroad to work in London and Milan, where she found roles behind the camera. She then had various minor roles in Spain across a number of domestic series, but Mexico was her watershed moment after performances in “Corazón salvaje” (2009), “El señor de los cielos” (2013) and “Nosotros, los Nobles” (2013).

✨ ELA É QUASE BRASILEIRA! DÁ O CPF DELA! 🇧🇷 Karla Sofia Gascón aproveitou SP com tudo: açaí, barzinho, catedral, futebol com Ronaldinho, visita à Mauricio de Sousa Produções e muita conexão com o Brasil. pic.twitter.com/70TVppTTg3
— Paris Filmes (@ParisFilmes) January 24, 2025

It was in 2018, after completing most of her gender transition and moving back to Spain, when Gascón released a memoir entitled Karsia, Una historia extraordinaria (Karsia: An Extraordinary Story). The book, named in honour of her birth name, was the first public declaration of her new identity.

On her transition, Gascón told the Golden Globes that she made this decision “while I was in Mexico at the age of 46, a short time ago, and it was because I already needed it... I said ‘I do it now or I never do it.’

“I have always known what I was and what I wanted to do but there was no opportunity to do it because I had developed in a different way... I decided that it was the only moment I had or it was that or never, I decided to make a watershed in my life and I did it more because it was the time since there was a gender identity unit in Spain that supported me wonderfully because if not, I wouldn’t have done that.”

The actress is married to Marisa Gutiérrez, and the couple have a child together. They met in a nightclub when Gascón was 19, and Gutiérrez a year younger.

Karla Sofía Gascón's credits:

Film:

1999: Se buscan fulmontis – Gigolo del club
2002: La caja 507 – Gafitas
2004: Di que sí – Álex
2013: Nosotros los Nobles – Peter Pintado
2013: El cura y el veneno – Felipe
2024: Emilia Pérez – Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" del Monte

Television:

1995: Los ladrones van a la oficina – Unknown
1995: El águila de fuego – Unknown
1995: Canguros – Luis
1996: Isabel – Paco
1996–1998: El súper – Guillermo
1997: Al salir de clase – Police
1997–1998: Calle nueva – Óscar
2000: ¡Ala... Dina! – Camera 1
2001: Antivicio – Reparto
2005: El pasado es mañana – Marcos Arce
2007: La que se avecina – DJ
2007: Hospital Central – Sergio
2008: Herederos – Oficiante
2009: Hermanos y detectives – Reportero
2009–2010: Corazón salvaje – Branko
2010–2011: Llena de amor – Jorge Jauma
2011: Una familia con suerte – Sergio
2012: GEIST, actual events – Xavier Pissau
2013: Como dice el dicho – Raúl
2014: El Señor de los Cielos – Iñaki Izarrieta
2014–2015: Hasta el fin del mundo – Alan
2016: Drunk History: el lado borroso de la historia – Diego de Quesada
2016: 40 y 20 – Óscar
2022: Rebelde – Lourdes
2022: MasterChef Celebrity México – Herself

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