Hanan Tarik was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to a Yemeni father and an Ethiopian mother. She won a modeling competition in high school and made small on screen work portraying herself as Arab. This work led to her to being noticed by director Ermias Tadesse and later cast in her first film. Her debut film Astaraki was release in 2015, Hanan takes a part of Muna. In the same year, she starred to the 2015 TV drama series Wolafen, being her debut in television programs. The series aired on EBS TV on September 17, 2015, as she has a role of Roza. After some recognition with this series, she began acting in various films; Yewededu Semon (2015), Yefikir Kal (2015), playing the role of Sara, Lene Kalesh (2017), as a role of Haymanot – the opposite character of Abraham Belayneh, Des Sil (2017) and Arif Aychekulem (2018). Raised by her grandmother, she has credited her for influencing her love of film.

Hanan married her long time boyfriend, Melake Brehan, in the spring of 2017. Hanan and Melake’s wedding set on May 20, 2017, with many fellow notable people attended. She has a son, Christian (born December 2017) in Sweden and a daughter called Lillian. It was noted that she spent most of her pregnancy in Ethiopia but decided to go to Sweden, where she has relatives to give birth due to some conflicting medical evaluations she had received while in Ethiopia. Today, she lives in Ethiopia when her family returned from Sweden.