Biography

Satine Queeni is a French-born British American actress based in England, and is also an historian, musician and philanthropist, particularly known for playing in period dramas spanning in the late modern period in American and British movies and series. She is renowned for her quintessential vintage lifestyle and pastiches and is the founder, owner & CEO of the Shanti शांति Foundation. Born in Paris, France and raised in the French countryside near Geneva, Queeni began her career as a songwriter and model.

Satine Star Angelika Grace "Sat" Queeni (née Satine Leroy) is born on February 25, 2007 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France from an upper-middle-class Parisian family. Her father Cyril Leroy is a computer scientist who worked in the business district La Défense, Paris and afterwards in Geneva, Switzerland. Her mother Ludivine (née Boussuge) worked in the luxurious department store Printemps Haussmann, she became a housewife a few years after Satine's birth. She is the descendant of Léon Blum, a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France in the early twentieth century. She is of Polish descent from her paternal great-grandmother and has Jewish ancestry through her maternal grandparents. At three years old, she left downtown Paris and moved with her family to a town in southeastern France in the Haute-Savoie department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region near the border of Switzerland. She was baptized as a toddler and had her first communion in 2023 in Rwanda, yet religion was not practiced in the household. With her parents and older brother Matisse, she traveled every year on summer vacations around the world, mostly in Asian countries like The Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and became something of a globetrotter. As a young teenager, she spent winter holiday in Southern France and lived in rental houses in coastal cities like Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Saint-Tropez, Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo in Monaco. She learned music theory for a while in middle childhood, alongside her brother. She also took violin lessons every week for a few years when she was in elementary school, growing her passion for music by doing so. A decade after leaving Paris, her family moved again to a nearby town on her second year in middle school.

She became fluent in English at thirteen years old, learning the language by herself by watching English speaking movies and reading books. She also learned Spanish and Mandarin Chinese in high school. She studied cinematography, English literature, philosophy and geopolitics in her later years of high school. She is fluently bilingual in French and English as well as semi-fluent Spanish, and is in the process of learning both Greek and Latin to support her work in history. Satine practices indoor rock climbing, a sport she has enjoyed since her youth. She has controversially been an advocate for drug liberalization to decriminalize recreational drugs. Queeni has lived in Rwanda, and she currently splits her time between two homes in France and England.

When she was in middle school, one of her hobbies was to write novels - most of the original ones that are now discontinued - such as Addictive Romance (formerly True Love - which has gone through several major editing), Hot Summer Love and Drive Me Crazy. She started writing screenplays as well, like the action-romance RED. As a musician and songwriter, she wrote her first collection of songs Lovely Love at thirteen years old, featuring tracks like Don't Cry, NYC and I Need To Know. This album is a blend between dream pop and rock, with only a few baroque pop songs like Love, but especially moody and dramatic ones like Love Me Slowly, Moon And Back, or Smokin' Kills Yet I'm Still Alive. Musically, she performs across eclectic genres (pop, rock, disco, psychedelia, folk, blues and country). She sings lead and background vocals, and is a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, keyboard, percussion, harmonica and violin.

Satine's musical influences include The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, The Beach Boys, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and is also inspired by the likes of current artists like Lana Del Rey, Arctic Monkeys and Harry Styles. She says: "The music I write is inspired by the past, from Bach to The Beatles and Lana Del Rey. It's extremely varied, as I perform across multiple genres. That's why there's something for everyone in that compilation." Queeni has also cited film directors, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, and principally Quentin Tarantino, models and actors such as James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Pattie Boyd, Brigitte Bardot, Al Pacino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and Cillian Murphy as influences.

Satine's teenage hood and education was peripatetic and quite turbulent. After facing some incidents (one of them was infamously setting on fire sheets of paper in class) in Saint-Michel, a religious, private, and one of the state's most prestigious boarding high school located in the alpine town Annecy in November 2022, she got fired and switched to a public high school for five months, but her parents decided to send her in Rwanda, Africa for a few months from March to July 2023. During that time, she lived in families' homes and emerged herself with their culture. She stayed the first month in a convent alongside religious sisters in the Huye district, where she had her first communion in a parish. In Huye, she did humanitarian work in middle schools and donated school supplies to children. She visited Kibeho, a small town in south Rwanda known because of reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ occurring in the 1980s. She moved to the capital city Kigali for four months afterwards and attended Mass on Sundays with her temporary legal guardians. It was during this period of time that she started to listen more to songs decades past, especially from the 1950s to the 1980s, which highly inspired her next two albums: Vintage Summer Heartbeat and Long Live The Good Old Days. After returning home from Africa in August 2023, Satine proceeded to continue her final years of high school. She explained that her stay in Rwanda enlightened her way to see the world and contributed for her to want to raise awareness about inequality in the world.

Satine is an activist and philanthropist too, and she founded the Shanti शांति Foundation (previously named Satine Queeni Peace & Love Foundation) on February 21, 2022, which is a non-governmental organization that equally donates to varied projects worldwide such as the anti-war movement, protecting endangered animals, historic preservation and justice for everyone everywhere. Inspired by the late 1960s counterculture, associated especially with the "peace and love" hippie movement, Satine Queeni decided to name her foundation "Peace" in the Hindi language, which translates to shanti (शांति). She says: "I felt like something needed to be done in the world. If I can help people in need, I'll do it."

Since its launch, Shanti शांति had held frequent projects. In July 2022, Satine cut and donated half of her hair to an association that creates wigs for people with cancer. While she was in Rwanda from March to July 2023, she donated school supplies to middle schoolers in Butante in the Huye District and in Kigali City. In August 2023, Satine went to Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the Middle East to feed animals in the desert. Satine traveled to the Philippines in April 2024 for the sixth time in her life to feed and take care of numerous animals such as cats, dogs, sea stars and more. In August 2024, Satine contributed to the Jardim Zoológico in Lisbon, Portugal. New extensions of the Shanti शांति Foundation were created afterwards for a more diversified and worldwide outcome. The Shanti Homelessness Relief Project (SHRP) was established in October 2024 and the Preservation of Archaeological Sites and Historical Artifacts (PASHA), created for historic preservation, was introduced in February 2025. From late December 2024 to early January 2025, Satine visited Türkiye and rescued and fed a large number of animals such as feral cats, dogs, rabbits and birds. In February 2025, Satine contributed to the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.

On her sojourn in Rwanda in 2023, Satine wrote and recorded Vintage Summer Heartbeat, a record of various genres from pop rock, new retro to country and reggae. She wanted to create an album which expressed her love for summertime. Almost all of Vintage Summer Heartbeat's songs are energetic like Sunset On The Beach and Palm Trees (Blue Heart). However, Salted Tears is a ballad, showing the melancholy of the end of summer. Long Live The Good Old Days is a blues, rockabilly and psychedelic record. She felt like she needed to "write a sung love letter to the gone and forgotten good old days". The second track in the album is a jazz and ragtime song reminiscent of the 1920s named Vegas whilst B&W TV is a dark and gloomy song exploring progressive rock. The deluxe edition of this album contains a fair amount of classic covers such as La Vie En Rose, If I Can Dream, Come Josephine In My Flying Machine, Day Tripper and more. However, in June 2024, after editing older songs and writing a few new songs to her discography - like Pattie (The Muse) and Peace & Love - she decided to release her upcoming collection of songs into a double LP titled the same as her third to-be album, Long Live The Good Old Days. She chose to sort the songs in chronological order, showing her growth in songwriting.

Queeni launched in early 2022 and owned Angelika, a clothing brand, which lasted for a period of two years, before its closing in February 2024. Angelika's goal was to create affordable and comfortable clothes for every women. "Express yourself with what you wear and stay true to yourself no matter what." Angelika regularly launched new collections, including mostly an extended line of clothing and loungewear but outerwear and swimwear as well. Angelika innovated and developed new products, with collections such as the asymmetrical little black dress and light beachwear cover-ups.

Shortly after launching Angelika, Satine Queeni founded Past Cosmetics in February 2022 (previously named Satine Queeni Beauty until mid-2022, then Star Beauty until September 2023). She was the owner and creative director of Past Cosmetics for two years. It was a natural vintage-inspired makeup, skincare and fragrance brand. Past Cosmetics' classic products and collections were inspired by the makeup industry from the twentieth century, which was a revolutionary period of new innovations for cosmetics. The brand's ethos and raison d'être was to produce vintage-influenced cosmetics that'll make customers feel like they stepped back in time. Past Cosmetics created affordable, timeless and high quality multitasking products for everyone, everywhere. Satine Queeni thought that it was about time to change the cosmetic industry by making a brand accessible to everyone and a good quality in their products and beyond. Sustainability played a big part at Past Cosmetics, their products were consciously made and crafted with natural ingredients, cruelty free, gluten free, and free from harmful additives. 1% of their annual sales went to the Shanti foundation.

New collections and products were released frequently. The original Love Stories From Decades Ago Lipstick launched in February 2023, which became a quick best seller, as well as the Queen of the Universe Collection and its eponymous first fragrance. The Pretty in Pink Collection was released in June 2024, and the Woodstock '69 Collection soon followed in July 2024. July 2024 also saw the launch of Grace Fragrance, the highly-awaited Past Cosmetics signature fragrance. The Spring Blossom Collection was launched on March 2025, making it the last collection of the brand. Past Cosmetics' sale of all skincare products were discontinued for disinclined reasons as of October 11, 2024 online. The brand announced their shutdown on April 4, 2025 because "[...] our founder Satine Queeni believes Past Cosmetics no longer aligns with its original vision," their makeup products ceased to be produced on April 10, 2025 after three years in operation.

While Queeni was on her trip in Rwanda from March to July 2023, she started to get interested in history and became fascinated with it, in general the history of the world, but especially the cultural events that happened throughout the twentieth century. She decided to turn this passion into her life work, alongside acting. As an historian, she studies human, world, social and cultural history, specializing in the late modern period from the eighteenth to late twentieth century (American frontier - native American Indian groups, mid-20th century, Cold War period, counterculture movement) and Western countries' respective golden age. She also works on historic entertainment and folklore culture. She focuses on European and American history. Her exhaustive work includes anthropology, ethnology, genealogy, archivism, archeology, geography, geopolitics, etymology and linguistics. On account of studying etymology, she is learning both Greek and Latin.

Satine Queeni is renowned for her quintessential vintage lifestyle and pastiches some of the twentieth century's decades, such as her trademark 1960s beehive/bouffant updo hairstyles, her vintage-inspired clothing, and her frequent pop culture references to the "good old days" from the 1920s to the 1980s and beyond. She is the author of a number of essays, mostly about cultural history and the hippie counterculture. She says: "The future's mysteries lies in history's secrets. My biggest dream is to have a time machine and go back in time. History and the past speak to me. My mantra is 'long live the good old days' and I've always lived by that. I love the way people lived back in the day and also the mystery of not completely knowing how, thus I try to found it out. I often get told that I'm being nostalgic for a time when I wasn't even alive but I'm thinking that I'm simply just stuck in the past. And I'm not planning of getting out of it for a long, long time."

Satine grew her passion for the United Kingdom and the United States by travelling there multiple times, and each time she grew fonder of these countries. She explains: "I am definitely both an Anglophile and an Americanophile. For me, the US is like a holiday trip whereas the UK is my homeland, as well as France."

Queeni studied audiovisual cinematography for three years in high school, and starred in a number of short films with her student friends at that time. She learned video editing and acting back then. She had a background role in Claude (2023), a side character in Zombies (2024) and a background role in the controversial play adapted into short film I Manage (2025), which was created alongside a team of stage actors. The movie premiered in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, in a town hall auditorium and was shown to regional deputies on May 5, 2025.

Satine has directed and produced short movies and is occasionally a costume designer on set. She is active in American and British movies and series and is known for playing versatile roles in period dramas, spanning in the late modern period from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. She is also famous for playing the archetype chain-smoking femme fatale and is well known on both sides of the Atlantic. Satine is acknowledged to attain an outstanding speech imitation ability in various accents, especially the American accent (including southern, Brooklyn, Valley) and the British accent (Cockney, Received Pronunciation). Satine Queeni is mostly focused on her acting career rather than any other works - such as Shanti - at the moment.