Lana Barić was born in 1979 in Split, Croatia. In 2005 she earned her acting degree from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. Since 2011 she has been a member of the drama ensemble at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. She has acted in more than forty stage productions and in as many films and TV series, receiving numerous awards and accolades. She has written several screenplays for short films as well as the screenplay for the feature film Tereza37, which won her the Golden Arena for Best Screenplay at the 2020 Pula Film Festival. The film also won an additional five Golden Arenas, including the Grand Golden Arena for Best Festival Film. The short film Snow White is her directorial debut. She also wrote the screenplay and played the lead role. Currently, she's working on a screenplay for her directorial feature debut called Eve after the Fall which she is developing at Split Script with Razvan Radulescu and Torino Film Lab with Isabelle Fauvel.