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Channing Tatum
Tatum on the New York City set of Fighting in October 2007
Born	Channing Matthew Tatum April 26, 1980 (1980-04-26) (age 29) Cullman, Alabama, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present
Spouse(s)	Jenna Dewan (2009–present)
Official website

Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor. 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), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), and Dear John (2010).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early work 2.2 2004–2007 2.3 2008–present 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Channing Tatum was born in Cullman, Alabama, the son of Kay, an airline worker, and Glenn Tatum, who worked in construction.¹²³ His ancestry includes Irish, French and Native American.⁴ Tatum's family moved to Mississippi when he was six, and he grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River, where he enjoyed a rural existence.⁴⁵

Tatum was athletic while growing up, playing football, soccer, track, baseball, and performing martial arts; he has said that "girls were always [his] biggest distraction in school.⁴ As a child, he practiced kung fu.⁶ 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. 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 working as an exotic dancer at a local nightclub, under the name "Chan Crawford."⁷ In 2010, he told an Australian newspaper that he would like to make a movie about his experiences as a stripper, saying, "I've already got the director picked out. I'd like Nicolas Refn, who did the movie Bronson, to do it because he's insane for it."⁸

He later moved to Miami, where he was discovered on the street by a model talent scout.

Career

Early work

Tatum was first cast as a dancer in Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" music video,¹ 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.^{citation needed} 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 2001.⁴ 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".⁴

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,⁹ 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.¹⁰ The acclaim continued when he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Supporting Actor".¹¹

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 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 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. Tatum next 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 starred as Duke in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Paramount Pictures' live-action film based on the popular Hasbro action figures. He also played a soldier in Dear John, a Screen Gems film based on a popular Nicholas Sparks bestseller.

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.

Tatum suffered a burn injury from an accident while filming The Eagle of the Ninth in Scotland. A crew member poured boiling water down Tatum's wet-suit, having forgetting to dilute the boiling water with cold river-water: a technique used to keep actors warm during the shooting of a river-scene. Tatum attempted to pull the wetsuit away from his body, but the water poured down into the crotch of his wet-suit and severely burned his penis. Tatum reported the boiling water "pretty much burned the skin off the head of my dick" and that "it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life." However, Tatum reports that "Now my penis is fantastic! One hundred percent recovered."¹²

Along with friends Reid Carolin, Adam Martingano, and Brett Rodriguez,¹³ Tatum have started a production company called 33andOut Productions.¹⁴

Personal life

In 2006, Tatum met Jenna Dewan on the set of Step Up. They began dating shortly after filming had finished.¹⁵ The couple became engaged in early September 2008 in Maui, Hawaii.² On Saturday, July 11, 2009, they were married on the grounds of Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu, California.¹⁶ On an interview with E!, Tatum revealed that he is openly bisexual. He also revealed that he had done several gay photo shoots with entertainment magazine Out.¹⁷

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2005	Coach Carter	Jason Lyle
	Havoc	Nick	Direct-to-video
	Supercross	Rowdy Sparks
2006	She's the Man	Duke Orsino
	Step Up	Tyler Gage
	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints	Antonio	Limited release
2007	The Trap	Greg
2008	Step Up 2: The Streets	Tyler Gage	cameo
	Stop-Loss	Steve Shriver
	Battle in Seattle	Johnson	Limited release
2009	Fighting	Shawn MacArthur
	Public Enemies	Pretty Boy Floyd
	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	Duke/Conrad Hauser
2010	Dear John	John Tyree
	The Eagle of the Ninth	Marcus Aquila	Filming
	Son of No One	TBA	Pre-Production
	The Stanford Prison Experiment	TBA	Announced
2011	G.I. Joe 2	Duke/Conrad Hauser	Announced

Awards and nominations

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result	Notes
2006	Independent Spirit Award	"Best Supporting Actor"	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints	Nominated	Awarded to Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
	Sundance Film Festival	Special Jury Prize		Won	Shared between Robert Downey, Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Rosario Dawson, Chazz Palminteri, and Dianne Wiest
2008	Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Actor Drama	Stop-Loss	Won
	Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Drama	Step Up 2: The Streets	Won	Shared with Step Up 2: The Streets cast
	Teen Choice Award	Choice MySpacer		Nominated	Awarded to Ryan Sheckler
2009	Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Actor Drama	Fighting	Nominated

References

External links

• Channing Tatum at the Internet Movie Database
• Channing Tatum's Official Website