Biographie
Frano Lasic was born in Rijeka.
He completed elementary and high school in Dubrovnik, where he also finished music school, specializing in guitar. From a young age, he collaborated with the Dubrovnik theater, initially as a freelancer and later as a permanent member.
After high school, he enrolled in marine engineering and graduated in 1978. That same year, he made his acting debut in the feature film "Occupation in 26 Pictures" directed by Lordan Zafranovic. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and several others, and Lasic won the Best Male Role award at the Actor's Festival in Nis.
Since then, he has acted in over 60 domestic and international films and TV series, earning numerous awards and honors.
In 1984, he recorded an LP with composer Djelo Jusic, which earned silver, gold, and platinum records across former Yugoslavia. The following year, he was named the most popular figure in Yugoslav show business. After passing a rigorous English proficiency exam at the American Language Institute, Georgetown University, he received a Fulbright scholarship in 1984 to study film in Los Angeles at UCLA. There he studied film production and specialized in acting.
He lived and trained in the USA for six years, where he networked extensively in the entertainment industry and founded "Euro-film Production Services," a company providing production services to film and television companies. He then returned to his homeland to continue his work in film. Through Euro-Film, he offered services for national TV productions and produced films. The film "The Harms Case," which represented Yugoslavia at the Cannes Film Festival in the late 1980s, won numerous awards at festivals worldwide, including Berlin, Mannheim, Belgrade, Jerusalem, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Chicago, and Hong Kong. Throughout his travels and festival appearances, he established lasting professional relationships within the film industry.
In recent years, he has produced various TV shows such as Flying Start, Willy-Nilly, Modelle, and That's My Stuff for local TV stations in Croatia and neighboring countries including Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Macedonia, often under foreign licenses.
He has been a member of the Croatian Film Workers (DFRH) since 1978 and holds the status of independent artist with the Society of Croatian Artists (ZUH) after 35 years of service.
