section_path: Career/2002–2009: Early roles in Spain and move to Mexico
section_name: 2002–2009: Early roles in Spain and move to Mexico
paragraph_text: 2002–2009: Early roles in Spain and move to Mexico
  
  Before 2014, Gascón portrayed male characters and was credited under her birth name Juan Carlos Gascón. She appeared in Spanish daily soap opera El súper portraying a flight attendant, as well as in such other shows as Calle nueva and El pasado es mañana. Early roles also included film appearances in Se buscan fulmontis (1999), Me da igual (2000), Box 507 (2002), and Say I Do (2004).
  
  Convinced by Mexican filmmaker Julián Pastor, Gascón moved to Mexico in 2009 to continue her acting career, taking on a number of telenovela roles, starting with the gypsy Branko in Corazón salvaje. She made a one-time return to the Spanish film industry to star alongside Tony Isbert in El cura y el veneno. In the Mexican box-office hit The Noble Family (2013), she played the supporting role of Peter Pintado, the gold-digging boyfriend of Karla Souza 's character Bárbara Noble, who poses as a Spaniard but is actually from Puebla. In 2014, she appeared in El Señor de los Cielos as the "ruthless" Spaniard Iñaki Izarrieta, an associate of Aurelio Casillas.
  
  Before 2014, Gascón portrayed male characters and was credited under her birth name Juan Carlos Gascón. She appeared in Spanish daily soap opera El súper portraying a flight attendant, as well as in such other shows as Calle nueva and El pasado es mañana. Early roles also included film appearances in Se buscan fulmontis (1999), Me da igual (2000), Box 507 (2002), and Say I Do (2004).
  
  Convinced by Mexican filmmaker Julián Pastor, Gascón moved to Mexico in 2009 to continue her acting career, taking on a number of telenovela roles, starting with the gypsy Branko in Corazón salvaje. She made a one-time return to the Spanish film industry to star alongside Tony Isbert in El cura y el veneno. In the Mexican box-office hit The Noble Family (2013), she played the supporting role of Peter Pintado, the gold-digging boyfriend of Karla Souza 's character Bárbara Noble, who poses as a Spaniard but is actually from Puebla. In 2014, she appeared in El Señor de los Cielos as the "ruthless" Spaniard Iñaki Izarrieta, an associate of Aurelio Casillas.