Career
She has also performed as a feature dancer and an automobile model. Star moved to the United States with her family from her native Philippines when she was less than two years old. She currently resides in California.
Her sister, Leah Santiago, was briefly in the adult film industry as well.
She has appeared in both Hustler and Club magazines as well as in various forms of Penthouse, including in The Girls of Penthouse in May/June 2014. In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #8 in their list of “The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time.” Star and several other adult film actresses appear in the 2009 blaxploitation film Black Dynamite as one of Black Dynamite"s "Ladies of Leisure".
In a 2008 interview, Black Dynamite director Scott Sanders stated that these adult film actresses were cast in the film because they had not undergone any plastic surgery or enhancements and therefore fit into the 1970s theme. She starred in the video for the 2009 song "That"s How I Go" by Baby Bash featuring Lil Jon and Mario.
Star has appeared on Night Calls in 2005 & 2006, Zane"s Sex Chronicles in 2010, Company-Editor Confidential in 2009-2010, and in the 2014 horror movie Face of Evil.
Star has also appeared on her own dining show, Eating Out With Charmane. In January 2015, Star stated on her Instagram account that she now only made mainstream films. 2005 AVN Award nomination – Best Oral Sex Scene, Video (Eye of the Beholder (2004) - Wicked Pictures) with Kaylani Lei & Brad Armstrong.
