Teona Strugar Mitevska was born on March 14, 1974, in Skopje, Yugoslavia [now Northern Macedonia]. She is a director and writer, known for I Am from Titov Veles (2007), God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019) and The Happiest Man in the World (2022). Her younger sister is actress Labina Mitevska. Teona has one child, Kaeliok.