biography of Channing Tatum

Channing Matthew Tatum

 (born April 26, 1980)^[2][3] is an American actor and producer. He made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter (2005), and had his breakthrough with the sports comedy film She's the Man (2006) and the dance film Step Up (2006). He rose to prominence for playing Duke in the action films G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), the title role in the comedy-drama films Magic Mike (2012), Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023), and an undercover cop in the action-comedy films 21 Jump Street (2012) and 22 Jump Street (2014).

Tatum's other films include The Vow (2012), White House Down (2013), Foxcatcher (2014), The Hateful Eight (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Logan Lucky (2017), and The Lost City (2022). He has produced several of his films, including the road film Dog (2022), which he also starred in and co-directed. He was named People's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2012 and one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2022 

Tatum was born on April 26, 1980, in Cullman, Alabama, to Kay Tatum (née Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Tatum, a construction worker. He has a sister named Paige. He is of Irish, French, and German ancestry. His family moved to Gautier, Mississippi, in the Pascagoula area, when he was six. Until he was ten years old, he lived in a rural setting near the bayous along the Pascagoula River. 

Tatum has discussed having dealt with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and dyslexia while growing up which affected his ability to do well in school. In his youth, Tatum participated in football, soccer, track, baseball, and wuzuquan kung fu. 

Tatum spent most of his teenage years in the Tampa area, where he initially attended Gaither High School. His parents wanted more effort and gave him the option of selecting a private high school or attending a military school; he chose Tampa Catholic High School, where he graduated in 1998 and was voted most athletic.  He later attended Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia on a football scholarship, but dropped out.  He returned home and started working odd jobs.

Us Weekly reported that around this time Tatum left his job as a roofer and began working as a stripper at a local nightclub under the name "Chan Crawford". In 2010, he told an Australian newspaper that he wanted to make a film about his experiences as a stripper. That idea led to the film Magic Mike. Tatum moved to Miami, where he was discovered by a model talent scout.

In 2000, 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 experience in the fashion industry began as a model working for 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 Page 305 (Page Parkes Modeling Agency), a modeling agency in Miami. He was cast by Al David for Vogue magazine and soon after 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 signed with Ford Models in New York City.

In 2006, Tatum starred in She's The Man opposite Amanda Bynes, which was named "the greatest Shakespeare adaptation since '10 Things I Hate About You'" by Business Insider.  Later that year, Tatum starred opposite his future wife Jenna Dewan in Step Up, which was his breakout role. Although it was widely panned, it has earned $115 million worldwide. 

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 short film The Trap, directed by Rita Wilson. 

Tatum and Dito Montiel, who worked together on A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, reteamed on the action drama Fighting for Rogue Pictures. He starred as Shawn MacArthur, a young man who starts out selling counterfeit goods in New York City. He next appeared in writer/director/producer Michael Mann's 2009 crime drama Public Enemies, playing the 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 was initially reluctant to take the role as he feared the film would glorify war, but overcame his reluctance after reading the script. He played a soldier in Dear John, a film based on the popular Nicholas Sparks bestseller.  He later said that he accepted the role to learn from director Lasse Hallström because he never studied at an acting school. 

In 2012, Tatum hosted Saturday Night Live  and appeared in four films. He co-starred in Steven Soderbergh's action-thriller Haywire, The Vow with Rachel McAdams, and 21 Jump Street (film adaptation of TV series of the same name) with Jonah Hill. 

Tatum also starred in Magic Mike, a film based on his eight-month experience as a stripper in Florida. The film was directed by Soderbergh, was co-produced by Tatum and Soderbergh, and starred Tatum as Mike. He is a featured performer at a Tampa, Florida, male strip club who takes a younger dancer (Alex Pettyfer) under his wing to show him how to hustle "on and off stage". The film's cast also included Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey. 

Tatum appeared in Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects, with Rooney Mara and Jude Law.  He reprised his role as Conrad S. Hauser / Duke in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the sequel to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, in an ensemble cast that included Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis. Originally scheduled for release on June 29, 2012, the film was pushed back to March 2013 to convert it to 3D and to add more scenes for his character, who was killed at the beginning of the film. Tatum later said he had not wanted to appear in the sequel and was happy his character had been killed off  Also in 2013, he appeared in another action film, White House Down. 

Tatum reprised his role from 21 Jump Street in its sequel, 22 Jump Street, which was released on June 13, 2014. Also in 2014, he co-starred with Steve Carell in Foxcatcher, the story of John du Pont, who had schizophrenia and killed Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz, the brother of the character played by Tatum, who also had won Olympic gold.^[33] In 2015, Tatum starred in Magic Mike XXL, reprising his 2012 rol

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Channing Tatum was born in a small town, Cullman, Alabama, 50 miles north of Birmingham. He is the son of Kay (Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Matthew Tatum, who worked in construction. Growing up, he was full of energy and somewhat troublesome, so his parents decided to enroll him in different sports such as track and field, baseball, soccer, and football to keep him out of trouble. In the ninth grade he was sent to Catholic school. It was there that he discovered his passion for football and his hopes became centered on earning an athletic college scholarship. Channing's goal was finally met, and in his senior year in high school, he was recruited and earned a full athletic college scholarship to a school in West Virginia.

Tatum is also skilled in Kung Fu and in Gor-Chor Kung Fu, a form of martial arts, in which he has earned belts. Channing later left college and, in the meantime, worked as a construction worker, a stripper, a mortgage broker and salesman. He has modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch, Nautica, Gap, Aeropostale, Emporio Armani, and has been featured in television commercials for American Eagle, Pepsi, and some very popular Mountain Dew commercials.

Channing can be seen on the big screen as a featured actor in Coach Carter (2005), in which he plays a high school basketball player. He was also in the very popular TV series CSI: Miami (2002) where he played the role of Bob Davenport.

TRIVIA ; 

• When in ninth grade, he was given the option of either military school or a private school; he chose the military school.
• Had worked as a construction worker, a mortgage broker, a salesman at the cologne counter of Dillard's, and a worker in a puppy/kitty nursery before started a modeling career.
• Moved from Alabama to Mississippi at age 6, where his family lived on a bayou.
• His favourite childhood film was the adventure comedy film The Goonies (1985).
• Has a daughter: Everly Tatum (b. May 31, 2013) with ex-wife, Jenna Dewan.
• Big break was being cast in Ricky Martin's music video "She Bangs"; he was paid $400 for the seven-day shoot.
• Already an accomplished dancer, he learned 1940s-style tap dancing for the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar! (2016), in which he plays an actor working in a 1950 musical/dance movie called "Last Call." In a barroom scene, with a dozen dancing sailors, his dance work required highly acrobatic tap combined with swing style. Doing his own work, one number included going from a standing position in front of the bar to a sustained handstand on the edge of the bar, culminating in somersaults to the end of the bar.
• Stills spends his summer time with his grandparents back in Alabama.
• Suffered from ADHD and dyslexia as a child.
• Has modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch, Dolce & Gabbana, and Aeropostale. In 2002, he starred in commercials for both Mountain Dew ("Drive") and Pepsi ("Scratching").
• Received a full athletic football scholarship at Glenville State College in West Virginia, but he dropped out of college.
• When he was a child, his grandparents raised him during the summers.
• Made the transition from modeling to acting because he did not find modeling challenging enough for him.
• (September 10, 2008) Engaged to Jenna Dewan, his co-star from Step Up (2006). The couple have a dog, Meeka.
• During his time in school, he played football, soccer, track and baseball.
• Was sent to a military school in ninth grade, where he joined the football team and intended to get a scholarship to play after graduation.
• Chosen by People magazine as the Sexiest Man Alive in 2012. He is the first person born in the 1980s to have been given the title (and thus could be considered the first millennial to have been given it).
• His family has lived in the American South for many generations, at least since the 1700s. He has English, some Irish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and distant Scottish, German, Welsh, and French ancestry. Channing has sometimes been said to have some degree of Native American roots, although these claims appear to be unverified; all of Channing's grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents were listed as "White" on United States Censuses.
• He auditioned to play Gambit in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) but the character was cut. He was later cast and was gonna be the executive producer of his own solo movie which was later put on hold and later canceled due to the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney but was finally got to play him in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
• Ranked #17 in Glamour magazine's list of "50 Sexiest Men" in 2013.
• His first fashion show was at Level Nightclub in South Beach, Miami (November 2000), for Men's Health magazine. His friend Vincent De Paul asked him to do the show with him. After the fashion show, he began booking editorials for Ocean Drive magazine and his modeling career began.
• Auditioned for the role of Gambit in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) before the role was eliminated, but will portray him in Gambit (????).
• Became good friends with Adam Scarimbolo and Shia LaBeouf on the set of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006).
• Signed with Innovative Artists, a talent agency, to improve his acting career.
• Has played two characters called "Duke": in She's the Man (2006), and in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and its sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).
• His Cajun accent as Gambit in "Deadpool and Wolverine" is perfectly accurate because he grew up in the bayous near New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Attended the Deena Levy Theatre Studio.
• In October 2023, Tatum has been announced his engagement to Zoë Kravitz. After two years of dating.
• Has a female pit-bull mix Lulu.
• His first fashion show was at Level Nightclub in South Beach, Miami, for Men's Health magazine.
• Born on the same date as Jordana Brewster.

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