Karla Sofía Gascón is a Spanish actress. She became the first transgender star to win the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She also became the first openly transgender actress to be nominated by the Academy for Best Actress. Gascón was born in Alcobendas, Spain, and decided to pursue an acting career at 16 years old.

Oscar-nominated actress Karla Sofía Gascón will skip Spain's prestigious Goya Awards ceremony this Saturday in Granada.

Jacques Audiard called Gascón's past social media comments "inexcusable" and confirmed he has not been in contact with the Oscar nominee recently.

Zoe Saldaña continues to think through the backlash against her Emilia Pérez costar Karla Sofía Gascón, after racist and Islamophobic social media posts that she had made in the past surfaced on social media Jan.

DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard is speaking out on Karla Sofía Gascón‘s offensive posts amid the backlash that his lead actress has recently received. In an interview with Deadline published Wednesday,

Zoe Saldaña has responded to her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón, who suggested Saldaña supports her “200 per cent” amid controversy over old social media posts. Gascón, who became the first ever publicly transgender woman nominated for an acting Oscar award for her titular role in the Spanish-language Netflix film,

When it was announced last month that Karla Sofía Gascón had been nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, it made headlines around the world. The news was hailed as a positive moment as the 52-year-old Emilia Perez star became the first-ever openly trans individual to be nominated for an Academy Award in any acting category.