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Channing Matthew Tatum was born in Cullman, in the southern state of Alabama, USA, on April 26, 1980. At the age of six, he moved with his family to Mississippi, so he grew up in the countryside, a healthy life and so on. . The tall actor (1.85 meters off the ground) whom his friends call Chan, was a great lover of sports and outdoor life from his earliest childhood. Baseball, soccer and American football occupied much of his free time, and thanks to them he developed his enviable athletic type. As if that were not enough, Tatum has also had time to learn martial arts. With such qualities it is not surprising that he won an athletic scholarship to a West Virginia college. But he would leave his studies to work in various jobs as a construction and commercial worker.

Since the man had a powerful physique, a good way to earn extra income was to apply as a model. And he managed to represent many brands such as Gap, Armani or Pepsi in advertisements. He also appeared in a music video with Ricky Martin. The good looks would give him the opportunity to debut as an actor on television in 2004, in an episode of CSI: Miami .

His first film, in a very natural way, allowed him to exhibit his sports training. It was in Coach Carter (2005), a biopic about a basketball coach played by Samuel L. Jackson . As you can imagine, his role was that of one of the players. The same year he could be seen briefly in Chaos (Havoc) , a film about the drug problem in youth.

2006 was a breakout year for Tatum. She chained a prestigious title, Memory of Quens , with two diversions for teenagers, a popular dance movie Step Up (Dancing) and a free revision of “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare in She’s the Boy . Very choral was the movie Battle in Seattle (2007) about certain social uprisings in the United States. While thanks to Public Enemies (2009), she was lucky to see his name join that of a prestigious director, Michael Mann , in an exciting gangster story.

fighting. Asphalt fists and GI Joe , both from 2009, were pure action popcorn cinema, which did not allow them to demonstrate their interpretive possibilities. On the other hand, he did have such an opportunity in Dear John , a romantic film based on the novel by the prolific Nicholas Spark, where he worked with another pretty Amanda Seyfried . The surf scenes allowed Channing to look great. In the same year that you released these two films, the actor married Jenna Dewan , with whom he had worked on Step Up (Dancing) .

In 2010, his intervention under the orders of Ron Howard in the comedy What a Dilemma has passed a little without pain or glory ! , where his work was clearly secondary. Instead he has shone as a Roman officer with courage and determination in The Eagle’s Legion , perhaps his best work to date.

Tatum’s career seems to have a good projection, at least if the works that will soon hit the screens are analyzed. With the “monster” Al Pacino and repeating with Dito Montiel , he has just shot The Son of No One . With Steven Soderbergh and the likes of Ewan McGregor , Michael Fassbender , Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas , Haywire is over. And in an intense race to stardom he has titles like The Vow , Ten Year , and, with Johnny Depp , 21 Jump Street in post-production .