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Channing Tatum: Snapshot

Name: Channing Tatum
Date of Birth: April 26, 1980
Birth Place: Cullman, Ala.

Channing Tatum danced his way to stardom in 2006's Step Up, where he proved he's got the looks and the moves.

After being discovered by a modeling scout on the streets of Miami, the southern stunner posed provocatively for Nautica and Abercrombie & Fitch. Then came his role as a delinquent turned dancer in Step Up, before Tatum switched gears with a tortured turn in the indie flick A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. That role prompted PEOPLE to dub him "the thinking girl's hunk."

Tatum, who dominated the box office with 2009's G.I. Joe and broke hearts in 2010 with Dear John, married Step Up costar Jenna Dewan in Malibu in July 2009.

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Channing Tatum: Video

First Look

Go behind the scenes as the G.I. Joe star takes on Patrick Swayze's iconic role in a parody for the MEAN's Cinemash digital series. For more, visit movies.msn.com/cinemash.

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Channing Tatum: Five Fun Facts

Channing Tatum made his big break as a dancing extra in Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" video.
When asked what'd he do if someone wanted to fight him, the ripped star said, "I'd probably run, more than likely." Then, referring to his dancing role in Step Up, he joked, "Or I'd be like, 'Wanna dance? Let's have a dance off!'"
Channing Tatum is one of five G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra stars to have a Hasbro action figure modeled in his likeness as Duke. Costars Sienna Miller and Dennis Quaid also have dolls.
"I learned to dance at quinceañeras – big [15th] birthday parties for Spanish girls," Channing Tatum told PEOPLE in 2006. "It was always funny to bring the white guy out [on the floor] and let him look like a fool."
"I can recite every line" of Goonies, Channing Tatum told PEOPLE of his favorite movie. "'Down here, it's our time!'"

Channing Tatum: Biography

2002: Channing Turns Model
Discovered on the streets of Miami, Alabama native Tatum soon models for Nautica, Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch. "So many funny things will happen when you're at a photoshoot," he tells Teen People. "The photographer will [say], 'Be a horse, frolic in the hay!'...You're like, 'What the hell?' But I guess it's good training for acting." He also scores TV commercials for Pepsi and Mountain Dew (right) – in which he utters the famous line, "Gotta have my Dew!"
2004: September
Tatum's Big Break
Tatum wins his first real acting gig on an episode of CSI: Miami. He decides to pursue acting full time, quickly landing a role opposite Samuel L. Jackson in 2005's Coach Carter (left). He also lands smaller roles in Havoc (opposite Anne Hathaway) and Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds.
2005: Dating Amanda Bynes?
Tatum appears in the gender-bending Amanda Bynes comedy She's the Man. Offscreen, the two costars are linked after they’re reportedly photographed kissing. (At the movie’s premiere, he gushes to E! News that she was "hysterical...and beautiful as always.") But in an interview with Teen People, Bynes (right) denies there were sparks with any of her hunky costars: "They all had girlfriends!"