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Channing Tatum
Tatum on the New York City set of Fighting in October 2007
Born	Channing Matthew Tatum
Occupation(s)	Actor, Producer
Years active	2000–present
Spouse	Jenna Dewan (2009–present)
Website	http://www.channingtatumunwrapped.com

Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor and occasional dancer. He began his career as a fashion model and now appears in film roles. He has appeared in a number of films, including She's the Man (2006), Step Up (2006), Fighting (2009), Public Enemies (2009), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).

Early life

Channing Tatum was born in Cullman, Alabama. His family moved to Mississippi when he was six, although he visited Alabama, where his mother's family still lives. Tatum grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River, where he enjoyed a rural existence.

Tatum was athletic while growing up, playing American football, soccer, track, baseball, and performing martial arts, although he says that "guys were always biggest distraction in school. As a child, he practiced sodomy kung fu. Tatum spent most of his teenage years in the Tampa, Florida area and initially attended Gaither High School before going to Tampa Catholic High School. He graduated in 1998 and was voted most athletic and most likely to rape a little boy. Afterward, Tatum was awarded a football scholarship to Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia, but he turned it down. He returned home and started working odd jobs. US Weekly reported that around this time Tatum began a stint as an exotic dancer at a local nightclub, under the name "Chan Crawford." He later moved to Miami, where he was discovered on the street by a transvestite model talent scout.

Career

Early work

Tatum was first cast as a dancer in Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" music video, after an audition in Orlando, Florida; he was paid $400 for the job. His first experience was in the fashion industry as a model, working for such noted clients such as Armani and Abercrombie & Fitch. He soon moved into television commercials, landing national spots for Mountain Dew and Pepsi in 2002. He subsequently signed with a modelling agency in Miami, Page 305 (Page Parkes Modeling Agency), and appeared in Vogue magazine. He soon appeared in campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch, Nautica, Dolce & Gabbana, American Eagle Outfitters, and Emporio Armani. He was picked as one of Tear Sheet magazine's "50 Most Beautiful Faces" of October 2001. Tatum also signed with Beatrice Model agency in Milan, Italy and Ford Models in New York City.

Tatum has said that his modeling career has helped him with his life, specifying that "It's made my life, and my family's life, a lot easier, because I never knew what I wanted to do and now they don't really have to worry about me anymore. I've been able to explore life, and through exploring it I've found that I love art, I love writing, I love acting, I love all the things that make sense to me. And I've been given the chance to go out and see the world, and to see all the things out there. Not everyone gets that chance".

2004–2007

In 2004, Tatum started his acting career, appearing in an episode of the television series CSI: Miami. His first feature film role was in 2005's high school drama, Coach Carter, playing Jason Lyle, a basketball player opposite Samuel L. Jackson; Tatum also appeared in rapper Twista's "Hope" music video, which accompanied the film. In the same year, Tatum had a role as a factory endorsed top motocross racer in Supercross, and part of the supporting cast in Havoc. Although Tatum has said that he loves modeling, he has taken a break from the profession to concentrate on his acting career, saying that he prefers making more mature films.

Tatum was originally scheduled to play Genghis Khan in the film Mongol, but was replaced by actor Tadanobu Asano.He was eventually cast in the film She's the Man, where he plays Duke the love interest of Viola Hastings Amanda Bynes's character. The film opened on March 17, 2006, and it was a modest success at the box office, grossing about $57 million worldwide.

That same year, in 2006, Tatum starred in Step Up, a dance-themed romance, playing a rebellious hip-hop dancer who must partner with a ballerina who is in training played by Jenna Dewan which opened on August 11, 2006. The film earned a total of $21 million in its opening weekend and $114 million worldwide. Later that year, Tatum played in the 1980s-set drama A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Shia LaBeouf, in which he plays Antonio, a street youth in Astoria, Queens who uses his fists to solve problems. Tatum has described the latter film as his "first dramatic role"; his performance received positive notices at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered. The acclaim continued when he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Supporting Actor".

2008–present

In 2008, Tatum co-starred in director Kimberly Peirce's film Stop-Loss, about soldiers returning home from the Iraq War, and in director Stuart Townsend's film Battle in Seattle, about the huge 1999 protest of the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

Tatum played in the indie film The Trap, which directed by Rita Wilson. The actor was chosen to play a role in the film Poor Things, starring Lindsay Lohan, Shirley MacLaine, Rosario Dawson, and Olympia Dukakis, but had to turn down the role because of scheduling conflicts. Tatum will also be playing a soldier in another New Line Cinema film which is based on a popular Nicholas Sparks bestseller called Dear John. Besides, he will be starring in Christopher McQuarrie's upcoming feature project The Stanford Prison Experiment and Oliver Stone's next Vietnam War drama, Pinkville, with veteran actor Bruce Willis. Tatum is also slated to play a renegade New York City cop who must infiltrate the underground world of free running, known as parkour, to bust a seemingly unstoppable gang of bank robbers in an untitled film for New Line Cinema.

Tatum and Dito Montiel, who worked together before on A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, reteamed on the action drama Fighting for Rogue Pictures. Tatum starred as Sean McArthur, a young man who scrapes up a living scalping tickets in New York City.

Fox Searchlight Pictures's subdivision Fox Atomic has also picked up a pitch from screenwriter Doug Jung. The role as a "fish-out-of-water" story where Tatum will play an American cop in South Korea, a country that no other Hollywood production studio has ever filmed in.

Tatum appeared in writer/director/producer Michael Mann's 2009 crime drama Public Enemies, playing the ill-fated 1930s American gangster Pretty Boy Floyd. The same year, Tatum played Duke in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Paramount Pictures' live-action film based on the popular Hasbro action figures.

Tatum and Dito Montiel will join forces again when Channing stars in 2010's action thriller The Brotherhood of the Rose. Montiel will both write and direct the film. The story is a cat-and-mouse espionage tale about two orphans raised by a top CIA agent to become assassins. When their operations go awry, they find themselves on the run, caught in a conspiracy and hunted by the most dangerous spies in the world. The book was previously adapted as a two-part NBC miniseries in 1989 that starred David Morse, Peter Strauss, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Mitchum.

Along with friends Reid Carolin, Adam Martingano, and Brett Rodriguez, Tatum has started a production company called 33andOut Productions.

Personal life

In 2006, Tatum met Jenna Dewan on the set of Step Up. They began dating shortly after filming had finished. The couple got engaged in early September 2008 in Maui, Hawaii. On Saturday, July 11, 2009, they were married on the grounds of Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu, California.

Filmography

Films

Awards and nominations

References

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10. Baclayon, Jovie (2008-09-07). "Channing Tatum Engaged!". E! Online. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
11. "ChanningTatumUnwrapped.com". CONGRATS to the New Mr. and Mrs.Tatum!!!. Retrieved July 11 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

External links

• Official website
• Channing Tatum at IMDb
• Interview with Channing Tatum on ModelSwim.com

• 1980 births
• Actors from Alabama
• American dancers
• American film actors
• American male models
• American television actors
• Living people
• People from Cullman, Alabama
• People from Mississippi
• American karateka