Top 10 Channing Tatum Movies EVER!

Channing Tatum has come a long way since breakdancing his way onto the big screen in 2006 as the leading man in Step Up. Since then, he's banked big box-office bucks and become part of Hollywood's A-list with movies like G.I. Joe, The Vow and, of course, Magic Mike. With his next potential smash on the horizon, the action-packed White House Down, we break out 10 roles that have helped him get to where he is today.

Step Up

Unless you count She's the Man (we don't), Tatum's breakout role was this 2006 dance/romance, in which he put his dance skills on display. Although the late-summer sleeper-hit was widely panned, it eventually earned $115 million worldwide, giving Tatum a high-profile launch pad. It's also where he met his wife, co-star Jenna Dewan, whom he married in 2009. (Their first child was born in May 2013.) The Step Up franchise has since gone on to include three more films, with Tatum making a cameo in 2008's Step Up 2: The Streets.

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

The first role in which Tatum really showed his acting chops was this 2006 film, which also stars Robert Downey Jr. and Shia LaBeouf. Based on a 2001 memoir by Dito Montiel, Saints largely revolves around Montiel's youth in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, during the 1980s. Tatum plays a younger version of Eric Roberts' volatile character Antonio, whose abusive past eventually leads him to murder. The little-seen film earned Tatum praise and was nominated for several awards, winning a Special Jury Prize for ensemble cast at the Sundance Film Festival.

Stop-Loss

Keeping the serious-actor momentum going, this 2008 drama follows veteran soldiers, including actors Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who have served in Iraq and are forced to deal with the Army's controversial stop-loss policy that orders them back into active duty. While the film bombed at the box office, it was another role that made people sit up and take notice of Tatum. At the time, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said Tatum "excels by going beyond the call of hunk duty" to find the film's "heart."

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