Charmane Star was born Sheryn Lascano on May 5, 1980, in the Philippines. She moved to the US with her family at age two, and grew up around California--they lived in San Francisco and San Diego, among others, until her mother remarried and they settled down in Sacramento.In high school she was in the theater club, and performed in such school productions as "Little Shop of Horrors", and she also was not ne of the lead characters in a play called "Chamber Music". After graduation she worked as a clerk in a Nordstroms department store, and began a modeling career. Not afterwards she got into nude modeling, and soon went into the adult-film industry. She shot a magazine cover, "Asian FeveR", for "Hustler" magazine. She left the adult-film business shortly after entering it and opened a nightclub in Milwaukee, WI, from 2001-2003, but she she eventually returned. She developed her own websites, charmanexxx.com and charmanelive.com and charmanestar.com. In addition, she began getting parts in "mainstream" films, and has appeared in films shot for cable networks HBO, Cinemax and Showtime. She has appeared in music videos and several mainstream magazines. She shot her first "mainstream" theatrical film, Black Dynamite (2009) in 2009 and is working on several more. Show less «