Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal (born 17 January 1985) is a Spanish actress. She is known for her leading roles on television series La Señora (The Lady) and El tiempo entre costuras (The Time in Between). Ugarte co-starred in the 2016 Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta, playing the younger version of the title character.
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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.
