Lux Balmaceda Pascal (born June 4, 1992) is an American and Chilean actress and transgender activist. She is known for her roles in the Chilean television series Veinteañero a los 40 and Juana Brava and the Chilean drama film The Prince.

Early and personal life

Lux was born in California as Lucas Balmaceda to Chilean exiles Verónica Pascal Ureta (1953–2000), a child psychologist, and José Balmaceda Riera (born 1948), a reproductive endocrinologist. Pascal's paternal grandmother, Juanita Riera Bauzá was the sister of Fernando Riera, a professional association football player and coach. The youngest of four siblings, Pascal is the sister of producer Javiera Balmaceda, actor Pedro Pascal and Nicolás Balmaceda Pascal, a doctor.

The seventh great-granddaughter of Mateo de Toro Zambrano, Pascal is related to the aristocratic Alessandri, Allende, and Balmaceda family. Pascal is the great-niece of Laura Allende, a politician and sister of Salvador Allende, President of Chile, and is the second cousin of Denise Pascal, a Socialist Party politician, and Andrés Pascal Allende, a sociologist, former Secretary General of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left and prominent member of the Chilean Resistance and Solidarity Movement.

When she was three years old, her family returned to Chile where she attended Saint George's College. In 2010, Lux began studying theater at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In May 2023, she graduated from Juilliard School with an MFA in acting.

In February 2021, Lux publicly announced that she is a transgender woman and changed her name to reflect her maternal surname. She has been in a relationship with actor José Antonio Raffo since 2011.

Career

In 2014, during her fourth year of studying theater, Lux made her stage debut in Pablo Rotemberg's play La noche obstinada. That same year, she landed her first television role on Canal 13's series Los 80, where she played "Axel Miller". In 2015, she co-starred in the TVN soap opera Juana Brava, and the following year, she acted in the soap opera Veinteañero a los 40 on Canal 13. Lux made her film debut in 2016 in Prueba de actitud, directed by Fabrizio Copano and Augusto Matte.

In 2017, Lux appeared in an international series for the first time, playing the role of Elias in the third season of the Netflix series Narcos, alongside her brother Pedro.

In 2019, Lux participated in three Chilean film productions: No quiero ser tu hermano, directed by Sebastián Badilla, Ella es Cristina, directed by Gonzalo Maza, and The Prince, directed by Sebastián Muñoz.

She landed her first leading role in a film in Miss Carbón, released in 2025.

Theater

  • 2014: La noche obstinada
  • 2017: Tebas Land
  • 2019: Kassandra
  • 2025: Richard II

Filmography

Film

Television

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