Tovilo emigrated to Germany at the age of twelve as the daughter of Croatian workers and lived first in Flörsheim am Main near Frankfurt am Main and later in Munich. After graduating from high school, Tovilo studied communication science and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and later also dubbing, moderation, singing and acting at the Deutsche POP Academy in Munich. In 2008 she was a European activist for the animal rights organization PETA and protested against bullfighting in front of the Spanish embassy in Berlin that same year. Tovilo describes American political and cultural history as her areas of expertise. Tovilo speaks Croatian, German, English and Italian.