Frano Lasić

Frano Lasić is a Croatian actor and pop singer, born on 12 November 1954 in Rijeka. He has lived in Dubrovnik since early childhood, and graduated there in mechanical engineering, a profession he never practised. Already at secondary school he was drawn to acting and performed at Dubrovnik's Marin Držić theatre.

He made his first film, Lordan Zafranović's Okupacija u 26 slika, in 1978, and after it decided to devote himself to acting. His most noted role is the theatre critic Melkior Tresić in Antun Vrdoljak's Kiklop (1982), based on Ranko Marinković's novel. In 1983 he went to the United States, where he spent seven years and studied production and acting, and he later lived for a while in England and Vienna. He has played in more than 55 films from the former Yugoslavia, as well as in foreign productions such as The Winds of War (1983), The Aviator (1985) and Dirty Dozen: The Series (1988).

His music career was short but memorable, and it belongs to 1983. At the Split festival that year he sang Đelo Jusić's "Zagrljeni", which became a big hit, and "Volim te budalo mala" won him the award for the best overall impression at Zagrebfest '83. He also released the LP Frano Lasić, which besides these two hits has the song "Dobro jutro". In 1984 he was back in Split with "Volio sam Mary Ann", and at MESAM he sang "Mesečina" (1986) and "Neka oči govore" (1988).

In the 2000s he was a familiar face in the series Villa Maria, Obični ljudi, Zabranjena ljubav, where he played Marinko Ružić, and Dolina sunca, and later in Ruža vjetrova, Selo gori a baba se češlja, Budva na pjenu od mora and Dinastija. In 2021 he played the lead in Dušan Kasalica's Elegija lovora, premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival, and the same year he was David Lloyd George in the series Aleksandar od Jugoslavije.

Since 2015 Frano Lasić has given New Year concerts at the Belgrade Youth Centre with the Dalmatian klapa Smrika, and in 2017 they performed together at Cadogan Hall in London at a charity concert. He is married to the artist Milena Lasić, with whom he lives in Belgrade.