Karla Sofía Gascón

Acting

Karla Sofía Gascón

Born 1972-03-31 · Madrid, Spain

Karla Sofía Gascón (born 31 March 1972) is an award-winning Spanish actress. She has appeared in several telenovelas and films, including El Señor de los Cielos, The Noble Family and Emilia Pérez. She has received numerous awards for her breakthrough performance in Emilia Pérez, including the Best Actress award at the Cannes International Film Festival, Best International Actress at the Venice Film Festival alongside BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations, becoming the first openly trans actress to do so.

Acting credits

Emilia Pérez poster
6.4

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Emilia Pérez

2024

We Are the Nobles poster
8.0

Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven't done before: get jobs.

We Are the Nobles

2013

Men and Other Inconveniences poster
2.0

Chloe and Alessandro are two 30-year-old, longtime friends living together in a large apartment. Chloe works for a culinary recipe publisher, while Alessandro is an up-and-coming painter. Although their friendship is strong, they have very different approaches to relationships. Chloe is constantly searching for her Prince Charming, while Alessandro, living openly as a gay man in a small town, navigates life with maturity despite the challenges. Their dynamic shifts when Roberto enters their lives. The three become inseparable, each learning from the others: Roberto sheds his bigotry, Chloe finally finds happiness, and Alessandro is content seeing them both fulfilled. But their balance is tested when Chloe finds out she’s pregnant.

Men and Other Inconveniences

2025

Scuola di seduzione poster
5.6

A love coach helps six different people navigate their insecurities and emotional difficulties, guiding them toward greater emotional awareness.

Scuola di seduzione

2026

Making Emilia Pérez poster
4.8

Go behind the scenes of this Oscar-nominated, genre-defying film with director Jacques Audiard and stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.

Making Emilia Pérez

2025

Say I Do poster
5.6

An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show presented by Amador Rosales. Meanwhile, movie usher and film buff Victor, who hates such reality shows, is being pressured by his mother to be a contestant.

Say I Do

2004

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Everything Can Happen!

Box 507 poster
6.5

Modesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.

Box 507

2002

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NR

A glamorous reception at the French Embassy in Madrid becomes the scene of a deadly crime.

El cura y el veneno

2013

The Cause of The Accident That Started The Fire poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Cause of The Accident That Started The Fire

2024

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NR

The routine of a group of trans sex workers is upset when their leader, Aunt Encarna, finds an abandoned baby and decides to adopt him without realizing she is putting everyone around her in danger.

Las Malas

Se buscan fulmontis poster
4.9

Some unemployed men look work as male stripper in a bar club, unaware the club is a cover for prostitution.

Se buscan fulmontis

1999

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NR

Trinidad flees persecution in Spain for the wild west. Along the way, she earns renown for her weapons skills but also becomes a target of enemies, such as the widow Bronson.

Trinidad

2026

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NR

Gabriel lives in a small New York apartment and becomes persecuted by Post-its left in the building’s elevator. These messages “order him to commit atrocious murders of three other tenants who, in turn, want to kill their next-of-kin."

The Life Lift