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 to the Best Female Performance at the Alcalá de Henares Festival of Short Films for her role performing 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 "Cabeza de Perro" 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 was also in the film "El juego del ahorcado", with Clara Lago and Álvaro Cervantes. Afterwards came "Castillos de carton" (2010), a film directed by Salvador García Ruiz that co-starred Nilo Mur and Biel Durán, and "Lo contrario al amor" (2010), co-starring beside Hugo Silva. She was also in the miniseries  Niños robados (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. Awards and nominations. Goya Awards Premios Ondas Iris Awards (the annual prizes of the )