Adriana Ugarte

Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal (born 17 January 1985) is a Spanish actress.^[1] 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.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ugarte and the second or maternal family name is Pardal.

Adriana Ugarte
Ugarte as Victoria Márquez in La Señora.
Born	Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal (1985-01-17) 17 January 1985 (age 40) Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present

Biography

Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal was born in Madrid on 17 January 1985,^[2] the daughter of Yolanda Pardal, lawyer and writer.^[3] She is the grandniece of Eduardo Ugarte, who was a collaborator of Luis Buñuel and who was married to a daughter of Carlos Arniches.^[4] She studied at the Colegio del Pilar in Madrid.^[2] She enrolled into a licentiate degree of Philosophy and Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, which she temporarily shelved,^[5][6] and later resumed at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).^[7]

Ugarte, age 16, debuted in the short film Mala Espina (2001), directed by Belén Macías,^[5] and won the award for the Best Female Performance at the Alcalá de Henares Festival of Short Films for playing a schizophrenic teenage girl.^[8] She was given guest roles in TV series such as Policías, en el corazón de la calle, Hospital Central and El comisario.^[9] 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.^[10]

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.^[11] 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.^[12]

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[13]	Main character
Heridas	Manuela León Escudero	Atresplayer Premium	2022	Main character (13 episodes)

Film

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006	Cabeza de perro (Doghead)	Consuelo
2007	Gente de mala calidad [es]	Eva
	El patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard)	Alejandra
2009	El juego del ahorcado (The Hanged Man)	Olga
	Castillos de cartón (Paper Castles)	María José
2011	Lo mejor de Eva (Dark Impulse)	Marta
	Lo contrario al amor (The Opposite of Love)	Merce		[14]
2013	Combustion	Ari
	Gente en sitios (People in Places)			[15]
2015	Tiempo sin aire (Breathless Time)	Vero		[16]
	Palmeras en la nieve (Palm Trees in the Snow)	Clarence
2016	Julieta	Julieta
2017	El sistema solar	Inés
	Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del rey Midas	Tiffany	Voice
2018	Amoureux de ma femme [fr] (The Other Woman)	Emma
	Durante la tormenta (Mirage)	Vera Roy
2023	Lobo feroz	Matilde		[17][18]
TBA	El silencio de Marcos Tremmer †	Lucía		[19]

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	Ref.
2007	21st Goya Awards	Best New Actress	Doghead	Nominated	[20]
2010	60th Fotogramas de Plata	Best TV Actress	La señora	Won	[21]
	19th Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best Television Actress in a Leading Role		Won	[22]
	12th ATV Awards	Best Actress in a TV Series		Nominated	[23]
2014	64th Fotogramas de Plata	Best TV Actress	The Time in Between	Won	[24]
	23rd Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best Television Actress in a Leading Role		Won	[25]
	Iris Awards	Best Actress in a TV Series		Won	[26]
	61st Ondas Awards	Best Female Actress of National Fiction		Won	[27]
2016	29th European Film Awards	Best European Actress	Julieta	Nominated	[28]
2017	22nd Forqué Awards	Best Actress		Nominated	[29]
	4th Feroz Awards	Best Actress in a Film		Nominated	[30]