Biography

Satine Queeni is a French-born British American actress based in England, and is also an historian and philanthropist. She is an occasional model, former creative director and songwriter. She is active in American and British films and is known for playing in period dramas, mostly situated in the late modern period from the eighteenth to late twentieth century. She is the founder and owner of the Shanti Foundation, which is a non-governmental organization that donates equally to varied organizations and funds such as the anti-war movement.

Satine Star Angelika Grace "Sat" Queeni (née Satine Leroy) is born on February 25, 2007 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is rumored that she might be the descendant of Léon Blum, a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France in the early twentieth century, although there is little evidence and a lack of proof. A few years later at age 3, she moved with her family to eastern France in the Haute-Savoie department near the border of Switzerland. With her parents and brother, she traveled every year on summer vacations around the world, mostly in Asian countries like The Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and more. She learned music theory for a while in middle childhood, alongside her older brother Matisse. 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. She is of Polish descent from her paternal grandmother, and she got 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 Chinese in high school. She studied cinematography, English literature, philosophy and geopolitics in her later years of high school. She speaks fluent French and English as well as semi-fluent Spanish.

When she was in middle school, one of her hobbies was to write novels, most of the original ones 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 began to write screenplays as well, like the action-romance RED. As a lyricist and songwriter, she wrote her first collection of songs Lovely Love at only thirteen, featuring tracks like Don't Cry, NYC and I Need To Know. This album is situated somewhere between 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 multiple eclectic genres, such as: pop, rock, disco, psychedelia, jazz, folk and country.

Satine's musical influences include The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, The Beach Boys, David Bowie and current artists like Lana Del Rey, Arctic Monkeys and Harry Styles. "The music I write is inspired by the past, from Bach to The Beatles and Nancy Sinatra. It's extremely varied, as I perform across multiple genres. That's why there's something for everyone in that compilation." She cited French musicians from her native country like Édith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Michel Sardou, Claude François, Johnny Hallyday and Serge Gainsbourg. She cited composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi. Queeni has also cited film directors, Quentin Tarantino and Alfred Hitchcock, models and actors such as Pattie Boyd, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, and Meryl Streep as influences.

Satine's teenage hood and education was peripatetic and quite turbulent. After facing some incidents in Saint-Michel, a religious, private and boarding high school, and one of the state's most prestigious school, located in the alpine town Annecy in November 2022, she 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. She went to the Huye district and Kigali, the capital, to do humanitarian work in schools and donated school supplies to children. It was during this period of time that she started to listen more to songs from the past decades, especially from the fifties to the eighties, 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.

Satine is an activist and philanthropist too, and she founded the Shanti 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, supporting addiction issues 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 somethings needed to be done in the world. If I can help people in need, I'll do it." On July 1, 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 late August 2024, Satine visited and contributed to the Jardim Zoológico in Lisbon, Portugal.

Vintage Summer Heartbeat is a record with various genres, from pop 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 much more of a blues, rockabilly and psychedelic record rather than simply a pop one. 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 untitled 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 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), Satine decided to release her upcoming collection of songs into a double LP entitled 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. 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' products and collections were inspired by the makeup industry from the twentieth century, which was a revolutionary period of new innovations for cosmetics. The inspiration behind Past Cosmetics was to make timelessly good makeup and skincare products. 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. Past Cosmetics' sale of all skincare products were discontinued online as of October 11, 2024 and their makeup products will cease to be produced mid-2025.

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, 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 art and cultural history, mostly the late modern period from the eighteenth to late twentieth century. She also works on the counterculture movement from the late 60s to early 70s. Her work also includes anthropology, ethnography, archivism, etymology and genealogy. She says: "The future's mysteries lies in history's secrets." Satine Queeni is mostly renowned for her vintage lifestyle and is a pastiche of some of the twentieth century's decades, such as her trademark 1960s beehive/bouffant updo hairstyles, her vintage-inspired clothing, and her frequent references to the good old days from the 1920s to the 1980s and beyond. From late 2023 to mid 2024, Satine was very fond of the counterculture from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, such as the hippie ethos of the era. Thanks to watching eighteenth century period dramas such as Outlander and Poldark in the summer of 2024, Satine also grew fond of that century. "My biggest dream is to have a time machine and go back in time. I'm obsessed with history and the past. The past speaks to me. I love the way people lived back in the day and 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 Ireland by travelling in London, England in October 2023 and Dublin, Ireland in February 2024 to celebrate her seventeenth birthday and also to visit her brother working there for business studies. She went back in London in February 2025 to celebrate her eighteen birthday. She explains: "For me, the US is like a holiday trip whereas the UK is my homeland, as well as France."

Queeni studied cinematography for two years in high school, and starred in a number of short movies with her student friends at that time, such as Claude's Horror Story and Zombies. She is active in American and British films and is known for playing versatile roles in period dramas, mostly situated in the twentieth century, but also the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also famous for playing the archetype 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, Western) and the British accent (Cockney, posh and Scottish). Satine Queeni is mostly focused on her acting career rather than any other works - such as Past Cosmetics and Shanti - at the moment.