Lana whose real name is Catherine Joy Perry is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling manager, actress, dancer, model, and singer. She is signed to the professional wrestling promotion WWE, where she performs under the ring name Lana.
Lana is best famous as a professional wrestling manager of fellow WWE wrestler and her husband Rusev with her widely accepted ring name "Lana". Lana is also widely popular due to her exaggerated Russian accent and anti-American display of her expressions in most of her WWE show appearances.
She is of Portuguese and Venezuelan decent. Her nationality is American and her religion is Christianity and her zodiac is Aries. Lana was born as Catherine Joy Perry on March 24, 1985, in Gainesville, Florida, the USA as the eldest of four siblings. She is the daughter of She spent several years of her childhood in the Latvian SSR, where her father worked as a Christian missionary. From an early age, Perry aspired to become a ballet dancer like her mother. Her father and mother's names are currently not known. She attended the Riga Choreography School (the ballet school of the Latvian National Opera) and began dancing with the Latvian National Ballet at the age of 14.
At the age of 17, she lived in New York and began dancing at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico, Broadway Dance Center, and Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance in the US. She later enrolled at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, Florida, majoring in dance and acting. While attending FSU, Lana also attended Florida State Seminoles football games and was also exposed to a modeling career, appearing in photoshoots in publications such as the RIDGID Tool Calendar and working as a spokesmodel for the energy drinks Matrix and Red Bull. After graduating from FSU, she relocated to Los Angeles intending to work in show business.
Lana started her wrestling career after signing to WWE in June 2013. She debuted on the October 23, 2013, episode of NXT, under the ring name "Lana", scouting Alexander Rusev. Lana made her main roster debut on the January 31 episode of SmackDown along with Rusev. Lana quickly gained huge mass attention due to her exaggerated Russian accent and anti-American display of her expressions in most of her WWE show appearances. Lana started to make regular appearances Following the November 3 episode of Raw in a match between Rusev and Sheamus for the United States Championship. Lana appeared at WrestleMania 31 in 2015. WWE announced that Lana had injured her wrist while training in September. From this time and onwards, Lana drew more interest of the crowds as she and Rusev were openly professing their romantic storyline. On the April 25, 2016 episode of Raw, Lana returned to managing Rusev once again. By this time Lana had already engaged and married Rusev. The other major striking recognition of Lana as she was always kind of showing nature like Villainess.
Some of the events relating to such acts are Lana did brawling with Brie Bella during a backstage segment on the February 29, 2016 episode of Raw. She distracted Brie during a tag team match against Team B.A.D. (Naomi and Tamina), causing her to lose, and aligned herself with Team BAD on the March 14 episode of Raw. Lana faced off Bella in a tag team match at the WrestleMania 32 pre-show, which was Lana's in-ring debut, which her team (dubbed Team B.A.D. & Blonde) lost.
On April 11, 2017, Lana was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the Superstar Shake-up. Lana competed in the WWE Mixed Match Challenge, teaming with Rusev, where they defeated Elias and Bayley in the first round, marking Lana's first official win in WWE in 2018. On the May 22 episode of SmackDown Live, Lana defeated Billie Kay to qualify for the women's Money in the Bank ladder match marking her first singles win in the company. In 2016, it was announced that Lana would be featured as the main cast member for the sixth season of Total Divas. Lana has also appeared in four WWE video games starting from WWE 2K15 to WWE 2K18. She was confirmed to be a playable character for the first time in WWE 2K19.
The WWE wrestler manager, Lana's net worth is currently not determined. Her major source of income is her wrestling career. In addition to that, she also is a model and actor. She has been involved in the wrestling industry since 2013. She is one of the most prominent wrestlers of WWE so she must be drawing a good sum of money from the company. Further information on her car, house, and other business are currently under review.
Lana is a married woman. She married fellow WWE wrestler Miroslav Barnyashev, better known by his ring name Rusev, on July 29, 2016, in Malibu beach. They engaged in October of 2015. The couple does not have any children yet. They are happily living together till date. Previously, Lana dated actor and former American football player Isaiah Mustafa.
The beautiful and sexy female wrestler, Lana is 34 years old as of 2020. She is very attractive in looks and due to the unique style of talking accent that stands her out from other WWE female wrestlers. Lana stands a decent height of 5feet 7inches tall. Her body weight is currently not known. She has long blonde hair and a pair of beautiful hazel eyes. She has a straight sexual orientation. Further information regarding her body stats, dress and shoe size are currently under review.