MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Adriana Sofia Ugarte Pardal
Spanish nationality
Birth January 17, 1985 (Madrid – Spain)
BIOGRAPHY
Adriana Ugarte is the granddaughter of director and screenwriter Eduardo Ugarte and the great-granddaughter of playwright Carlos Arniches . It was mainly on the small screen that she began to make herself known, via the Spanish series Policías, en el corazón de la calle, Mesa para cinco and Hospital Central in which she obtained secondary roles. In 2008, her notoriety increased when she was selected to play the main character in the series La señora , which takes place in the 1920s. She plays Victoria Márquez de la Vega, the daughter of a rich businessman who falls in love with ‘a man from a poor social class.
Building on this success, Adriana Ugarte is in greater demand in the cinema, as her important performances in the romances Castillos de cartón (2009) and Lo contrario al amor (2011) demonstrate. She also tasted thriller and action with Dark Impulse (2011) and The Chase (2013). Also in 2013, the actress also obtained the main role in the mini-series with a very large audience in Spain The Spy of Tangier , that of a young seamstress from Madrid who becomes a spy at the dawn of the Second World War.
2015 marks another important year in Adriana Ugarte’s career since a certain Pedro Almodóvar offers her the role of the title role in his melodrama Julieta , which is presented in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. More precisely, the actress plays the character of Julieta when he is between 25 and 40 years old. A performance that does not go unnoticed. Two years later and after having played in the romance Palmiers dans la neige, Adriana Ugarte tackles a lighter register with Amoureux de ma femme , her first French film. This romantic comedy sees her in the role of Gérard Depardieu ‘s new companion who, with her extraordinary beauty, makes the latter’s best friend, Daniel Auteuil , dream .
