[citation needed] However, this failed attempt highlighted the fact that Ugalde was specializing in violent youth with a good heart, as he plays the role of Gorilo in Héctor (Gracia Querejeta, 2004).

That year the director Paul Malo, with whom he had worked on a short film, offered him a starring role in Frío sol de invierno.

In 2005, he premiered Queens, in the role of a man about to marry his boyfriend (Daniel Hendler) in the first Spanish gay wedding who could not support his castrating mother.

Miloš Forman asked him to play the brother of Natalie Portman in Goya's Ghosts along with Javier Bardem, Randy Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård, Eusebio Lázaro, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Andrés Gértrudix and Fernando Tielve.

Then he starred in La buena nueva, in which he plays a priest who spends the Spanish Civil War in the navarrese town of Alsasua and who will witness with horror the atrocities being committed in the name of religion.

In this film, Ugalde stars with Guillermo Toledo and fellow Basque actress Barbara Goenaga, among others and is directed by Helena Taberna.

The film is an American production inspired about Guevara's life during the Cuban Revolution and directed by Steven Soderbergh.

In 2011, Ugalde premiered two films, the first being There Be Dragons, directed by Roland Joffé and based on Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer's life as a catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei.

[1] Finally, in december Ugalde premiered TV film El asesinato de Carrero Blanco in ETB and 2012 in TVE.