Facts about Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum is an American actor who has starred in films such as Coach Carter, 21 Jump Street and Dear John.

15. Tatum was born April 26, 1980 in Cullman, Alabama, from Kay Faust, an airline worker, and Glenn Tatum, a construction worker.

14. He is Native American, Irish, and French ancestry.

13. Channing Tatum was a model before acting in

our favorite movies! He became famous with brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Aeropostale and Dolce & Gabbana. The highlight of his career when he was a modeled for Vogue, but gave it up because he thought it was not as demanding of a career.

12. Channing's first big break in Hollywood? A clip with Ricky Martin. Channing got a role in Ricky video "She Bangs" in 2000!

11. Before making it big, he has held a series of odd jobs, including builders, broker and store clerk.

10. Channing struggled with dyslexia as a child.

9. Most people are aware that Tatum used to be a

stripper when he abandoned his college studies in the late 1990s. But did you know he has performed under the stage name Chan Crawford and generally danced to Usher's "You Make Me Wanna?"

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8. Channing once admitted to work in a hospital in Florida where he gives puppies food and medicine to newborn dogs.

7. Channing was in a military school in ninth grade, where he joined the football team and planned to get a scholarship to play after graduation.

6. Tatum worked in the sci-fi film by Steven Spielberg in the War of the Worlds, but the scene where he played a boy in the church was thrown on the floor of the cutting room.

5. Although he was born in Alabama, Tatum grew up in Mississippi and later spent his teenage years in Tampa, Florida.

4. He is the brother of actor and singer Christopher Anderson.

3. This is a little strange, but both Channing and his

wife like the mythical faries! They had a wedding theme of fairies and the cake topper was the two of them as fairies.

2. Channing and his wife have matching tattoos! Channing has been married with his Step Up co-star Jenna Dewan since 2009. The couple tattoos say "side by side" in Balinese.

1. Tatum had an imaginary friend when he was a child.

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