Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor, producer, and previous model. After starting his profession as a style model, he has branched out into performing roles, performing withinside the movies Havoc (2005), Coach Carter (2005), Supercross (2005), She’s the Man, then Step Up, and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, all of which had been launched in 2006.

Born in Cullman, a small metropolis in Alabama and later moved to Wetumpka, Alabama. Tatum has one sister. His own circle of relatives moved to Mississippi whilst he become six, even though he visits Alabama, in which his mother’s own circle of relatives nevertheless lives. Tatum grew up withinside the bayous close to the Mississippi River, in which he loved a rural existence, including “All the rattlesnakes and alligators a boy ought to likely chase, fishing each day, Pop Warner soccer league, stuff like that.”[1]

Tatum become athletic whilst developing up, gambling American soccer, soccer, track, baseball, and acting martial arts, even though he says that “women had been always [his] largest distraction in college.”[1] Tatum to start with attended Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida. After his sophomore year, he “had an alternative either [to attend] a army college or a personal college”. He selected the personal college, Tampa Catholic High School in Tampa, Florida. He graduated in 1998 and become voted maximum athletic. Afterward, Tatum become presented a soccer scholarship to Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia, even though he quickly misplaced hobby in the game and grew to become down the scholarship, mentioning his dislike of the needs of gambling soccer.