| Channing Tatum | |
| Birth Name: | Channing Matthew Tatum |
| Birth Date: | 26 April 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Cullman, Alabama, U.S. |
| Yearsactive: | 2000–present |
| Partner: | Zoë Kravitz (2021–present; engaged)[1] |
| Children: | 1 |
| Awards: | Full list |
Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980)[2] is an American actor. Tatum made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter (2005), and had his breakthrough role in the 2006 dance film Step Up. He gained wider attention for his leading roles in the sports comedy She's the Man (2006), the comedy-drama Magic Mike (2012) and its sequels Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023), the latter two of which he also produced, and in the action-comedy 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel 22 Jump Street (2014).
Tatum has also appeared as Duke in the action film (2009) and its sequel (2013). His other films include White House Down (2013), Foxcatcher (2014), The Hateful Eight (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Logan Lucky (2017), and The Lost City (2022). Tatum has also starred in, produced and co-directed the road film Dog (2022). In 2012, he was named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine,[3] and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.[4]
Tatum was born on April 26, 1980, in Cullman, Alabama, to Kay Tatum (née Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Tatum, a construction worker.[5] [6] [7] He has a sister named Paige. He is of Irish, French, and German ancestry.
His family moved to the Pascagoula, Mississippi area when he was six. He grew up in the bayous near the Pascagoula River, where he lived in a rural setting.[8]
Tatum has discussed having dealt with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and dyslexia while growing up, which affected his ability to do well in school.[9] Growing up, Tatum played football, soccer, track, and baseball; he has said that "girls were always [his] biggest distraction in school." As a child, he practiced wuzuquan kung fu.[10]
Tatum spent most of his teenage years in the Tampa area, and 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.[11] He later attended Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia on a football scholarship, but dropped out.[12] 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".[13] [14] In 2010, he told an Australian newspaper that he wanted to make a film about his experiences as a stripper.[15] That idea led to the film Magic Mike.[14] 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.[16]
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.[17] 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.[18]
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.[19]
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.[20] The same year, Tatum starred as Duke in , 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.[21] He played a soldier in Dear John, a film based on the popular Nicholas Sparks bestseller.[22] He later said that he accepted the role to learn from director Lasse Hallström because he never studied at an acting school.[23]
In 2012, Tatum hosted Saturday Night Live[24] 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.[25]
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,[26] 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".[26] The film's cast also included Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey.[26]
Tatum appeared in Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects, with Rooney Mara and Jude Law.[27]
He reprised his role as Conrad S. Hauser / Duke in , the sequel to 2009's , 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.[28] Tatum later said he had not wanted to appear in the sequel and was happy his character had been killed off.[29] Also in 2013, he appeared in another action film, White House Down.[30]
Tatum reprised his role from 21 Jump Street in its sequel, 22 Jump Street, which was released on June 13, 2014.[31] 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.[32] In 2015, Tatum starred in Magic Mike XXL, reprising his 2012 role.
Tatum was set to star as X-Men character Remy LeBeau / Gambit in a solo film, set within the X-Men film universe, which he would have produced,[33] [34] [35] but the film was cancelled in May 2019 after languishing in development hell since 2014.[36] Tatum eventually appeared as Gambit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). In 2022, Tatum made his directing debut on Dog, a road-trip comedy tracking a former Army Ranger and his dog that he starred in and co-helmed with regular collaborator Reid Carolin.[37] The same year, he starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the Paramount Pictures romantic action adventure film The Lost City.[38]
In 2023, Tatum returned as Mike Lane in Magic Mike's Last Dance with Steven Soderbergh as director. The film was set for an exclusive premiere on HBO Max,[39] but it was instead released in theaters on February 10, 2023.[40]
Tatum will next star in the thriller film Blink Twice, marking the directorial debut of Zoë Kravitz.[41]
In an interview with Details magazine, published in early 2012, Tatum said he wants to produce all the films he stars in, "I really don't want to be in any more movies that I don't produce. Unless it's with one of the 10 directors that I really want to work with, I don't have any interest in not being on the ground floor of creating it."[42] He, his then-wife Jenna Dewan, and their production partner Reid Carolin signed a two-year production deal in 2010 with Relativity Media for any films they may develop during that time.[43]
Tatum started two production companies, 33andOut Productions[44] and Iron Horse Entertainment.[45] Their first production was the 2010 documentary Earth Made of Glass. In 2021, another one of his production companies, Free Association, signed a first look deal with MGM.[46]
Tatum has written two picture books inspired by his daughter. The first, The One and Only Sparkella (2021), was a #1 New York Times bestseller for children's picture books the week it published.[47] The One and Only Sparkella Makes a Plan was published in 2022.[48]
In 2006, Tatum met actress Jenna Dewan on the set of their film Step Up, and they married on July 11, 2009, in Malibu, California.[49] They have one daughter, born in 2013.[50] On April 2, 2018, the couple announced they were separating.[51] Six months later, Dewan filed for divorce from Tatum.[52] The divorce was finalized in November 2019.[53] In a 2023 interview with Vanity Fair, Tatum questioned whether he would ever remarry, though said his divorce prompted self-improvement, including a strong relationship with his daughter.[54]
Tatum dated English singer Jessie J from 2018 to 2020.[55] [56] [57] In 2021, Tatum started dating Zoë Kravitz and, by 2023, the couple were engaged.[58] [59]
In October 2012, Tatum and a friend opened the Saints and Sinners burlesque-themed restaurant and bar in New Orleans, which remained in business ten years later.[60]
In October 2023, Tatum signed the Artists4Ceasefire open letter to President Joe Biden calling for a ceasefire during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.[61]
| Denotes works that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Coach Carter | Jason Lyle | ||
| Havoc | Nick | |||
| Supercross | Rowdy Sparks | |||
| War of the Worlds | Boy in church | Uncredited | ||
| 2006 | She's the Man | Duke Orsino | ||
| Step Up | Tyler Gage | |||
| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | Young Antonio | |||
| 2007 | The Trap | Greg | Short film | |
| Battle in Seattle | Johnson | |||
| 2008 | Tyler Gage | Cameo appearance | ||
| Stop-Loss | Steve Shriver | |||
| 2009 | Fighting | Shawn MacArthur | ||
| Public Enemies | Pretty Boy Floyd | |||
| Conrad S. Hauser / Duke | ||||
| 2010 | Dear John | John Tyree | ||
| 2011 | The Dilemma | Zip | ||
| The Son of No One | Jonathan "Milk" White | |||
| The Eagle | Marcus Flavius Aquila | |||
| 10 Years | Jake Bills | Also producer | ||
| Haywire | Aaron | |||
| 2012 | The Vow | Leo Collins | ||
| 21 Jump Street | Greg Jenko | Also executive producer | ||
| Magic Mike | Michael "Magic Mike" Lane | Also producer | ||
| 2013 | Side Effects | Martin Taylor | ||
| Conrad S. Hauser / Duke | ||||
| This Is the End | Himself | Cameo appearance | ||
| White House Down | John Cale | Also executive producer | ||
| Don Jon | Connor Verreaux | Cameo appearance | ||
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Superman | Voice[62] | |
| Foxcatcher | Mark Schultz | |||
| 22 Jump Street | Greg Jenko | Also producer | ||
| The Book of Life | Joaquin Mondragon Jr. | Voice | ||
| 2015 | Jupiter Ascending | Caine Wise | ||
| Magic Mike XXL | Michael "Magic Mike" Lane | Also producer | ||
| The Hateful Eight | Jody Domergue | |||
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Burt Gurney | ||
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Superman | Voice | |
| Dark Hoser | Voice role, short film | |||
| Logan Lucky | Jimmy Logan | Also producer | ||
| Tequila | [63] | |||
| 2018 | Smallfoot | Migo | Voice | |
| 2019 | Superman | |||
| 2021 | George Washington | Voice; also producer | ||
| Free Guy | Revenjamin Buttons | Cameo | ||
| 2022 | Dog | Army Ranger Jackson Briggs | Also director and producer | |
| The Lost City | Alan Caprison / Dash McMahon | |||
| Bullet Train | Train passenger | Uncredited cameo | ||
| 2023 | Magic Mike's Last Dance | Michael "Magic Mike" Lane | ||
| 2024 | Fly Me to the Moon | Cole Davis | ||
| Deadpool & Wolverine | Remy LeBeau / Gambit | [64] | ||
| Blink Twice | Slater King | Completed | ||
| Josephine | Post-production[65] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Bob Davenport | Episode: "Pro Per" | ||
| 2012 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episode: "Channing Tatum/Bon Iver" | |
| 2014 | The Simpsons | Movie Homer Simpson | Voice, episode: "Steal This Episode" | |
| 2016 | Lip Sync Battle | Himself | Episode: "Channing Tatum vs. Jenna Dewan-Tatum" | |
| 2017 | Comrade Detective | Gregor Anghel | Voice, 6 episodes; also executive producer | |
| 2022 | The Afterparty | Himself / "Young John Oates" | 2 episodes | |
| Statesman | Agent Tequila | Main cast |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Earth Made of Glass | Executive producer | Documentary | |
| 2018–2022 | Step Up | Executive producer | Television series | |
| 2018 | 6 Balloons | Producer | Feature film | |
| 2021 | Fatherhood | Executive producer | Feature film | |
| 2021–2022 | Finding Magic Mike | Executive producer | Television series | |
| 2024 | Spaceman | Producer | Feature film |
| Year | Title | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | "She Bangs" | Ricky Martin | |
| 2006 | "(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me" | Sean Paul featuring Keyshia Cole | |
| "Get Up" | Ciara featuring Chamillionaire | ||
| 2013 | "(I Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatum" | Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum featuring Jimmy Kimmel | |
| 2017 | "Beautiful Trauma" | Pink | |
See also: List of awards and nominations received by Channing Tatum.