Elena Satine

Elena Mari Satine is an American actress and singer.

Satine was born in Tbilisi, thencapital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic . Her mother was an opera singer and her father worked in the textile industry. At the age of five, Satine became a part of the Georgian pop group Nergebi, a Mickey Mouse Clublike ensemble of child performers. She toured with Nergebi throughout Eastern Europe, including an appearance on childrens variety show Utrennaya Zvezda and later branched off into a solo career. At ageElena and her family moved to Sochi, and at age 9, Satine became the youngest performer to headline at the Kinotavr Festival. In 1998, while accompanying her mother on a business trip, Satine snuck away to audition for Professional Performing Arts School, and earned her admission on the spot. After convincing her parents to let her study in the United States, Satine moved to New York, and graduated from PPAS at age 16. Afterwards she continued her Dramatic studies at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia.

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