--- name: "Karla Sofía Gascón" canonical: "https://film.one/person/karla-sofia-gascon" fi1m_id: "karla-sofia-gascon" imdb_id: "nm1035423" tmdb_id: 1505938 wikidata_id: "Q5750470" roles: ["Actor"] born: "31 March 1972" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T19:50:21.440919+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Karla Sofía Gascón ## Identity Karla Sofía Gascón - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karla-sofia-gascon - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** karla-sofia-gascon - **IMDb ID:** nm1035423 - **TMDB ID:** 1505938 - **Wikidata ID:** Q5750470 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Sof%C3%ADa_Gasc%C3%B3n, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5750470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1035423/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1505938 Actor. Born 31 March 1972 in Madrid, Spain. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 31 March 1972, Madrid, Spain - **Also known as:** کارلا سوفیا گاسکون - **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Sof%C3%ADa_Gasc%C3%B3n, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5750470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1035423/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1505938 ## Coming up - *Trinidad* (2026-12-04) ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Emilia Pérez*](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md) (58) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Karla Sofía Gascón is a Spanish actress. Born Juan Carlos Gascón on 31 March 1972 in Alcobendas, Spain, she began her acting career in Spanish television series in the 1990s and later worked in Mexican telenovelas and films. She appeared in *We Are the Nobles* (2013) as Peter Pintado and in the series *El Señor de los Cielos*. In 2024, she played the title role in *Emilia Pérez*, portraying both Manitas and Emilia Pérez. She shared the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress with her co-stars and won the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was the first openly transgender actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Emilia Pérez* (2024), Fi1m 58, as Emilia / Manitas — [page](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md) ## Complete filmography (17) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Trinidad* (2026), Actor - *Scuola di seduzione* (2026), as Ortensia - *Men and Other Inconveniences* (2025), as Jaime - *The Cause of The Accident That Started The Fire* (2024), as Karla - *Emilia Pérez* (2024), as Emilia / Manitas, Songs — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md) - *Harina* (2022), series, as Forense María - *Rebelde* (2022), series, as Lourdes - *40 y 20* (2016), series, as Óscar - *El cura y el veneno* (2013), as Felipe - *We Are the Nobles* (2013), as Peter Pintado - *La que se avecina* (2007), series, as Pincha - *Say I Do* (2004), as Alex - *Box 507* (2002), as Gafitas - *Se buscan fulmontis* (1999), as Gigoló - *The Life Lift*, Actor - *Las Malas*, as Aunt Encarna - *Everything Can Happen!*, as Stella DeMaar ## Gallery - ![Karla Sofía Gascón](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-c50a9ac1d88b.jpg) Karla Sofía Gascón — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Malaga_Film_Festival_2025_-_Karla_Sof%C3%ADa_Gasc%C3%B3n-1.jpg/1280px-Malaga_Film_Festival_2025_-_Karla_Sof%C3%ADa_Gasc%C3%B3n-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Cast and crew of Emilia Perez at TIFF 2024 the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-b7baeb03f58c.jpg) Cast and crew of Emilia Perez at TIFF 2024 the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Cast_and_crew_of_Emilia_Perez_at_TIFF_2024_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Cast_and_crew_of_Emilia_Perez_at_TIFF_2024_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Cast of Emilia Perez at TIFF 2024](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-129078addb12.jpg) Cast of Emilia Perez at TIFF 2024 — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Cast_of_Emilia_Perez_at_TIFF_2024_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_Emilia_Perez_at_TIFF_2024_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Cast of Emilia Perez at TIFF 2024](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-735e4c72c6b4.jpg) Cast of Emilia Perez at TIFF 2024 — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Cast_of_Emilia_Perez_at_TIFF_2024_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_Emilia_Perez_at_TIFF_2024_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Karla Sofía Gascón](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-ec48dd57f940.jpg) Karla Sofía Gascón — Image via TMDB - ![Karla Sofía Gascón](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-88cbf4f16614.jpg) Karla Sofía Gascón — Image via TMDB - ![Cast of Emilia Perez at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-d6f73099098c.jpg) Cast of Emilia Perez at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — Frank Sun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Cast_of_Emilia_Perez_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_Emilia_Perez_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Emilia Pérez red carpet premiere at Cannes 2024](https://film.one/media/person/10713/gallery-aae38828e0ce.jpg) Emilia Pérez red carpet premiere at Cannes 2024 — Canal22, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Emilia_P%C3%A9rez_Cannes_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2025: Best Actress (nominated), for *Emilia Pérez* ### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won - 2024: Best Actress (won), for *Emilia Pérez* ### Other awards — 3 won - Lumière Award for Best Actress 2025: Lumière Award for Best Actress (won), for *Emilia Pérez* - Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2024: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won) - European Film Award for Best Actress 2024: European Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *Emilia Pérez* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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