After repeatedly stoking backlash in the weeks leading up to the Oscars last month, Karla Sofía Gascón has snagged her next big screen role. According to Variety, the “Emilia Pérez” actor ...

Edgardo Gazcón was a Mexican film producer, writer and director. He is the son of film producer Valentín Gazcón and father of actor/TV host Edgardo Gazcón.

Karla Sofía Gascón has become the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. The Spanish star is recognized for her performance in the titular role of Jacques Audiard ...

Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history Thursday as the first openly transgender actor to land an Academy Award nomination. Gascón scored her first career nomination Thursday morning in the Best ...

2. Gascón already made film history last year, when she became the first trans actor to win a major prize at Cannes. This year, she became the first trans actress in a film to be nominated for a ...

Audiard had initially intended for Manitas and Emilia to be played by two different actors. "This just simply would not have been the same if you had had two different actors, an actor and an ...

Over the last half century, many cisgender actors have been nominated at the Oscars for portraying trans characters, including Jared Leto (“The Dallas Buyers Club”), Jaye Davidson (“The ...

Karla Sofía Gascón, the star of the French film "Emilia Pérez," has become the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. Gascón was nominated in the Best Actress ...