Unax Ugalde Gutiérrez (born 27 November 1978) is a Spanish actor born
in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Ã lava, in the Basque Autonomous Community.Unax
Ugalde, son of a worker at the Altos Hornos and a housewife, was born
in 1978 in Vitoria-Gasteiz. While a student, he had the ambition of
becoming a marine scientist and started taking interpretation classes.
In order to pay for his studies, he worked in a supermarket where he
dressed up as a chocolate ball. He got his very first job in a TV
series named Entre dos fuegos for ETB basque television.In 1999, he
left the Basque Autonomous Community to start an acting career in
Madrid. Thanks to series like A las once en casa (where he played
Coyote, boyfriend of a girl named Lucia), El grupo or Periodistas he
achieved certain notoriety in Spain. The Unión de Actores nominated
him for the Best Actor Award for El grupo (2000)- in which a Unax
played a drug addict who wanted to resume family ties- and Best
Supporting Actor for Periodistas (2001), where he was also nominated
for Fotogramas de Plata Awards. He completed his work on TV with an
appearance in Compañeros, in which he played a robber who dies in a
school while trying to flee police.He made his debut in the cinema in
Báilame el agua, for which he also wrote some parts of the script.
His first main role came with Volverás (2002). In that film he played
a good student who is about to leave home, when he met his criminal
brother (Tristan Ulloa), thus leaving the "right way" and trying to
help him to reach emotional maturity during a night. In that year,
2002, Ugalde had a supporting role in the film Bellas durmientes by
Eloy Lozano. And year later, 2003, Ugalde starred in the controversial
film Diario de una becaria by Josecho San Mateo, director of Ugalde's
first film (Báilame el agua).
in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Ã lava, in the Basque Autonomous Community.Unax
Ugalde, son of a worker at the Altos Hornos and a housewife, was born
in 1978 in Vitoria-Gasteiz. While a student, he had the ambition of
becoming a marine scientist and started taking interpretation classes.
In order to pay for his studies, he worked in a supermarket where he
dressed up as a chocolate ball. He got his very first job in a TV
series named Entre dos fuegos for ETB basque television.In 1999, he
left the Basque Autonomous Community to start an acting career in
Madrid. Thanks to series like A las once en casa (where he played
Coyote, boyfriend of a girl named Lucia), El grupo or Periodistas he
achieved certain notoriety in Spain. The Unión de Actores nominated
him for the Best Actor Award for El grupo (2000)- in which a Unax
played a drug addict who wanted to resume family ties- and Best
Supporting Actor for Periodistas (2001), where he was also nominated
for Fotogramas de Plata Awards. He completed his work on TV with an
appearance in Compañeros, in which he played a robber who dies in a
school while trying to flee police.He made his debut in the cinema in
Báilame el agua, for which he also wrote some parts of the script.
His first main role came with Volverás (2002). In that film he played
a good student who is about to leave home, when he met his criminal
brother (Tristan Ulloa), thus leaving the "right way" and trying to
help him to reach emotional maturity during a night. In that year,
2002, Ugalde had a supporting role in the film Bellas durmientes by
Eloy Lozano. And year later, 2003, Ugalde starred in the controversial
film Diario de una becaria by Josecho San Mateo, director of Ugalde's
first film (Báilame el agua).
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