Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal (born 17 January 1985) is a Spanish actress. She is known for her leading roles on television series ''

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''. Ugarte landed a starring role in the 2016

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film '' Julieta''.

Biography

Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal was born in

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on 17 January 1985, the daughter of Yolanda Pardal, lawyer and writer. She is the grandniece of Eduardo Ugarte, who was a collaborator of

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and who was married to a daughter of

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. She studied at the Colegio del Pilar in Madrid. She enrolled into a licentiate degree of Philosophy and Arts at the

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, which she temporarily shelved, and later resumed at the

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(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

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s in TV series such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''El comisario''. She was nominated to the

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for her role as Consuelo in the 2006 film ''

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'' directed by

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. Ugarte's leading performance as Victoria Márquez de la Vega in the television series ''

'' (aired from 2008 to 2010) earned her great popularity. This same year, she made an appearance in '' The Hanged Man'', with

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and

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. 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'' (

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), in which she plays Susana. In 2013, two years after shooting was finalized, ''

'' premiered, the series based on the novel of the same name by writer

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. Starring Ugarte as Sira, it achieved breaking viewing figures in Antena 3 by the closure of the series.

Filmography

Television

Heridas 2022

Film

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 ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' ( es, La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with ''Blood Wedding'' and ''Yerma'' as a "rural trilogy". Garcia Lorca did not include ...

'' (2006)

Awards and nominations

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Fotogramas de Plata Fotogramas de Plata are a series of Spanish annual film, theatre and television awards awarded by ''Fotogramas'' film magazine since 1951. On 5 February 1951, ''Fotogramas'' magazine awarded their first Placa de San Juan Bosco award to actor Jes� ...

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Premios de la Unión de Actores y Actrices Iris Awards (the annual prizes of the Academy of the Sciences and the Arts of Television of Spain)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ugarte, Adriana 1985 births Living people Actresses from Madrid Spanish television actresses Spanish film actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses