Ivona Baković was born 10th of April 1999 in Split. She grew up in Tomislavgrad, where she completed her elementary and high school education, and where she first started to act as a teenager in KIC Tomislavgrad. In 2017, she enrolled at the Academy of Performing Arts to Department of Acting. She finished her studies with Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage in 2021.
 
She worked as an acting educator in both Tomislavgrad and Sarajevo, through following schools: Mala škola glume, Škola mjuzikla i glume, Mali Magacin Kabare, Ljetna škola glume Aparatteatar, Centar Kulture i Mladih, and continues to do so today in Edukativno- zabavni centar Dječji Grad.

She is hired as a guest actress in Sarajevo National Theatre (plays The Hunger Artist and The Idiot), Sarajevo Youth Theatre (play God of Carnage) and Sarajevo War Theatre (Sarajevo Feeling). Play The Hunger Artist was awarded as best play (Serbia, 2022, Novi Tvrđava Teatar), and in season 2022/23 the ensemble was awarded by Sarajevo National Theatre as best collective.
 
 Her film credits are the following: Tell Me Something Nice (Mirela Salihović,
2021), Spectrum (Albert Rami, 2021) and Zumbul and the Hammer (Redžinald Šimek, 2023); she also appears in documentary films Children of Peace (Emir Kapetanović, 2016), and In Pursuit of Resemblance (Emir Kapetanović, 2017). She plays in music videos of two popular Bosnian and Herzegovinian bands: Zabranjeno pušenje (Ispod radara, 2023) and Helem Nejse
(Guramo tu priču, 2022)

She worked as a TV presenter for Sarajevo Mon Amour - The Chronicles of the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival in 2021, after which she starts working as a TV presenter for lifestyle TV show Nova IN at Nova BH. She leaves this position in 2023. She speaks BHS (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian), English and German.