Lux Balmaceda Pascal (born 4 June 1992) is an American-born Chilean actress and

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Biography

Born in California as Lucas Balmaceda, she is the child of José Balmaceda and Verónica Pascal, both Chileans exiled after the 1973 coup, because her mother was the cousin of

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, leader of the Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement. She was the last of four siblings, among whom is the actor

Pedro Pascal José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (born 2 April 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. He began his career guest-starring on various television shows before rising to prominence for portraying Oberyn Martell on the fourth season of the HBO fantas ...

. At the age of three she returned to Chile with her parents and brother Nicolás. In Chile she studied at Saint George's College, and in 2010 she entered to study theater at the

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. She revealed she is a transgender woman in February 2021, changing her name to Lux Pascal, taking her maternal surname. Since 2011, she has been in a relationship with the actor José Antonio Raffo.

Career

In 2014, while she was in her fourth year of theater, she starred in the play ''La noche obstinada'', by Argentine choreographer Pablo Rotemberg. That same year she made her television debut, joining the cast of the series ''

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'', broadcast by Canal 13, where she played "Axel Miller". In 2015 she was co-star of the

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soap opera ''

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'', and the following year she acted in the soap opera ''

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'' on Canal 13. At the end of 2016 she had her film debut in '' Prueba de actitud'', by

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and Augusto Matte. In 2017, she had her first appearance in an international series, when she played Elijah in the third season of the Netflix series ''

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'', where she starred with her brother Pedro. In 2019, she participated in three Chilean film productions: '' No quiero ser tu hermano'', by Sebastián Badilla, ''

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'', by

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, and ''

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'' by Sebastián Muñoz.

Theater

* 2014: ''La noche obstinada'' * 2017: ''Tebas Land'' * 2019: ''Kassandra''

Filmography

Film

* 2011: ''

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'' * 2016: '' Prueba de actitud'' * 2019: '' No quiero ser tu hermano'' * 2019: ''

'' * 2019: '' El príncipe''

Television

*2014: ''

'' *2015: ''

'' *2017: ''

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'' *2018: ''

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'' *2019: ''

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'' *2020: '' La jauría''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pascal, Lux 1992 births Chilean actors Chilean people of Basque descent Chilean people of Spanish descent Juilliard School alumni Chilean LGBT people Living people Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Transgender actresses