First Person: Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum Film actor, California
US actor Channing Tatum grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River. He was voted ‘Most Athletic’ when he graduated from Tampa Catholic High School in 1998. He spent eight months as a roofer and a stripper in Florida, before embarking on a modelling and finally a film career. He achieved both box office and critical success, and produced the independent sleeper hit Magic Mike, about his experiences as a stripper. The ...