# Adriana Ugarte

Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal (born 17 January 1985) is a Spanish actress. She is known for her leading roles on television series La Señora and El tiempo entre costuras. Ugarte landed a starring role in the 2016 Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta.

## Biography

Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal was born in Madrid on 17 January 1985, the daughter of Yolanda Pardal, lawyer and writer. She is the grandniece of Eduardo Ugarte, who was a collaborator of Luis Buñuel and who was married to a daughter of Carlos Arniches. She studied at the Colegio del Pilar in Madrid. She enrolled into a licentiate degree of Philosophy and Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, which she temporarily shelved, and later resumed at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).
Ugarte, age 16, debuted in the short film Mala Espina (2001), directed by Belén Macías, and won the award for the Best Female Performance at the Alcalá de Henares Festival of Short Films for playing a schizophrenic teenage girl. She was given guest roles in TV series such as Policías, en el corazón de la calle, Hospital Central and El comisario. She was nominated to the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her role as Consuelo in the 2006 film Doghead directed by Santi Amodeo.
Ugarte's leading performance as Victoria Márquez de la Vega in the television series La Señora (aired from 2008 to 2010) earned her great popularity. This same year, she made an appearance in The Hanged Man, with Clara Lago and Álvaro Cervantes. She then starred in Paper Castles (2009) along with Nilo Mur and Biel Durán, and in Lo contrario al amor (2010), alongside Hugo Silva. She also featured in the miniseries Stolen Children (Telecinco), in which she plays Susana.
In 2013, two years after shooting was finalized, El tiempo entre costuras premiered, the series based on the novel of the same name by writer María Dueñas. Starring Ugarte as Sira, it achieved breaking viewing figures in Antena 3 by the closure of the series.

## Filmography
### Television

| Series | Role | Channel | Year | Notes |
| Policías, en el corazón de la calle | Olga | Antena 3 | 2002 | Supporting role (2 Episodes) |
| El secreto del héroe | Olivia | TVE | 2003 | Television film |
| El comisario | Herself | Telecinco | 2006 | Supporting role (1 Episode) |
| Mesa para cinco | Julia | LaSexta | 2006 | Supporting role (7 Episodes) |
| Hospital Central | Adriana / Nerea / Dr. Natalia of the Hoyo | Telecinco | 2002–2011 | Supporting role (8 Episodes) |
| La Señora | Victoria Márquez of the Vega | TVE | 2008–2010 | Main character (36 episodes) |
| Stolen Children | Susana Guzmán | Telecinco | 2013 | Television film |
| El tiempo entre costuras | Sira Quiroga / Arish Agoriuq | Antena 3 | 2013–2014 | Main character (17 Episodes) |
| Habitaciones cerradas | Teresa Brusés | TVE | 2015 | Television film |
| La sonrisa de las mariposas | Mariana Solís de Páramo | Antena 3 | 2016-? | Main character (? Episodes) |
| Hache | Helena | Netflix | 2019-? | Main character (14 Episodes) |
| Tribes of Europa | Alia | Netflix | 2021 | Supporting role (1 Episode) |
| Parot | Isabel Mora | Amazon Prime Video | 2021 | Main character |
| Heridas | Manuela León Escudero | Atresplayer Premium | 2022 | Main character (13 episodes) |

### Film

Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2006 | Cabeza de perro (Doghead) | Consuelo | |
| 2007 | Gente de mala calidad [es] | Eva | |
| 2007 | El patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard) | Alejandra | |
| 2009 | El juego del ahorcado (The Hanged Man) | Olga | |
| 2009 | Castillos de cartón (Paper Castles) | María José | |
| 2011 | Lo mejor de Eva (Dark Impulse) | Marta | |
| 2011 | Lo contrario al amor (The Opposite of Love) | Merce | |
| 2013 | Combustion | Ari | |
| 2013 | Gente en sitios (People in Places) | | |
| 2015 | Tiempo sin aire (Breathless Time) | Vero | |
| 2015 | Palmeras en la nieve (Palm Trees in the Snow) | Clarence | |
| 2016 | Julieta | Julieta | |
| 2017 | El sistema solar | Inés | |
| 2017 | Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del rey Midas | Tiffany | Voice |
| 2018 | Amoureux de ma femme [fr] (The Other Woman) | Emma | |
| 2018 | Durante la tormenta (Mirage) | Vera Roy | |
| 2023 | Lobo feroz | Matilde | |
| TBA | El silencio de Marcos Tremmer † | Lucía | |

### Short films

* Cuánto. Más allá del dinero (2017)–as Lucía
* Estocolmo (2008)–as Sol
* Diminutos del calvario (2002)–as Doncella
* Mala espina (2001)–as Sara

## Theater

* The big theatre of the world (2013)
* The house of Bernarda Alba (2006)

## Accolades

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 2007 | 21st Goya Awards | Best New Actress | Doghead | Nominated |
| 2010 | 60th Fotogramas de Plata | Best TV Actress | La señora | Won |
| 2010 | 19th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Television Actress in a Leading Role | La señora | Won |
| 2010 | 12th ATV Awards | Best Actress in a TV Series | La señora | Nominated |
| 2014 | 64th Fotogramas de Plata | Best TV Actress | The Time in Between | Won |
| 2014 | 23rd Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Television Actress in a Leading Role | The Time in Between | Won |
| 2014 | Iris Awards | Best Actress in a TV Series | The Time in Between | Won |
| 2014 | 61st Ondas Awards | Best Female Actress of National Fiction | The Time in Between | Won |
| 2016 | 29th European Film Awards | Best European Actress | Julieta | Nominated |
| 2017 | 22nd Forqué Awards | Best Actress | Julieta | Nominated |
| 2017 | 4th Feroz Awards | Best Actress in a Film | Julieta | Nominated |