Karla Sofía Gascón, star of “Emilia Pérez,” is the first openly trans actor to get an Oscar nomination.

The first openly transgender actress to get an Academy Award nomination is Karla Sofía Gascón. The Spanish actress is well-known for her portrayal as the title character in “Emilia Pérez,” a musical crime film directed by Jacques Audiard.

Throughout the Netflix movie, Emilia (Gascón), a notorious drug kingpin, enlists the aid of Rita (Zoe Saldaña), a lawyer, to stage her death and get gender-affirming surgery.

Gascón “electrifies” in her performance, according to Variety’s top film reviewer Peter Debruge, who lauded the Spanish-language picture in his review.

This is not Gascón’s first historic nomination this awards season; she was the first transgender woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe for film acting and the first transgender.

Woman to win the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress prize, a distinction she shared with co-stars Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz.

There have only ever been three openly transgender individuals nominated for an Oscar in any category: Yance Ford, musician Anohni, and composer Angela Morley.

 

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