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Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and former model, best known for his roles in Step Up (2006), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Dear John (2010), The Vow (2012), and 21 Jump Street (2012). He has also appeared in films such as Coach Carter (2005), She's the Man (2006), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), and Fighting (2009). While mostly known for his dramatic performances in Dear John and The Vow, he has since ventured into more comedic roles.
Tatum was born and raised in Cullman, Alabama. His mother, Kay (née Faust), is an airline worker, and his father, Glenn Tatum, worked in construction. His ancestry includes Irish, French and Native American. Tatum's family moved to Mississippi when he was six, and he grew up in the bayous near the Mississippi River, where he lived in a rural setting.
Tatum was athletic while growing up, playing football, soccer, track, baseball, and performing martial arts; he has said that "girls were always [his] biggest distraction in school." As a child, he practiced wuzuquan kung fu under the lineage of 10th dan Grandmaster Chee Kim Thong. Tatum spent most of his teenage years in the Tampa, Florida area and initially attended Gaither High School before going to Tampa Catholic High School. He graduated in 1998 and was voted most athletic. Afterward, Tatum attended Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia on a football scholarship, but dropped out. He returned home and started working odd jobs. US Weekly reported that around this time Tatum began working as a stripper at a local nightclub, under the name "Chan Crawford." In 2010, he told an Australian newspaper that he would like to make a movie about his experiences as a stripper. He later moved to Miami, where he was discovered on the street by a model talent scout.
Charlize Theron (American English pronunciation: /ʃɑrˈliːs ˈθɛrən/; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ʃɐrˈlis tron]; born 7 August 1975) is a South African actress and fashion model. She started her acting career in the United States and rose to fame in the late 1990s following roles in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), becoming the first African to win an Academy Award in a major acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for her performance in North Country (2005). Theron became a US citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship.
Theron was born in Benoni, in the then Transvaal Province of South Africa, the only child of Gerda (née Maritz; who has also called herself Gerta) and Charles Theron (born 27 November 1947).Second Boer War figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle. Her ancestry includes French, German, and Dutch; her French forebears were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa. "Theron" is an Occitan surname (originally spelled Théron) pronounced in Afrikaans as [tron], although she has said that the way she pronounces it in South Africa is [θron]. She changed the pronunciation when she moved to the U.S. to give it a more "American" sound.
Actors: Walton Goggins (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), J.D. Evermore (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Jonah Hill (actor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Bruce Dern (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Robert Carradine (actor), Leonardo DiCaprio (actor), Michael Bowen (actor), Edrick Browne (actor), M.C. Gainey (actor), Don Johnson (actor), John Jarratt (actor),
Plot: Former dentist, Dr. King Schultz, buys the freedom of a slave, Django, and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of Django's wife who is under the hands of Calvin Candie, a ruthless plantation owner.
Keywords: 1850s, 19th-century, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actor-plays-multiple-roles, alias, ambush, animal-attack, australian, bag-over-head, ball-peen-hammerActors: Jim Powers (actor), Jim Powers (editor), Jim Powers (director), Jim Powers (writer), Steve Powers (director), Steve Powers (actor), Mike Barry (actor), Sean Cranston (actor), John Stegemann (actor), Karli Stone (actress), Steve Powers Sr. (actor), Nate Howard (actor), Jeff Hollinger (actor), Susan Powers (actor), Justin Craig (actor),
Genres: Crime, Western,Actors: Janna VanHeertum (actress), James Fields (actor), James Fields (editor), James Fields (producer), Michael Gerald (producer), Michael Gerald (director), Michael Gerald (writer), Riley Bodenstab (actor), Riley Bodenstab (producer), Riley Bodenstab (writer), Taylor Coffman (actress), Tanner Alexander Redman (producer), Tanner Alexander Redman (director), Tanner Alexander Redman (actor), Tanner Alexander Redman (writer),
Plot: Five friends take a trip the mountains in order to hear their life long friend David play his first big gig. But as the trip unfolds the once suicidal Julian, childhood friend to David, begins to loose control. After his med's go missing he begins a downward spiral that will rip the friends apart forever. But what he doesn't know is that one of the friends is really getting even the whole time. Who can you trust?
Genres: Drama,Actors: Dan Butler (actor), Ronald Leamon (costume designer), Joy Saez (producer), James J. Yi (editor), Todd Licea (actor), Robert A. Guthrie (actor), Tim Gouran (actor), Andrew Scott McIntyre (actor), Richard Waterhouse (actor), Dixi Lee (actress), Devielle Johnson (actor), Doug Brooks (actor), Joe W. Acton (writer), Justin Cantrell (actor), Joe W. Acton (producer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Mat Ranillo III (actor), Charlie Davao (actor), Ricardo Lee (miscellaneous crew), Judy Ann Santos (actress), Piolo Pascual (actor), Judy Ann Santos (actress), Olivia M. Lamasan (miscellaneous crew), Bembol Roco (actor), Albert Martinez (actor), Lotlot De Leon (actress), Liza Lorena (actress), Rica Peralejo (actress), Chinggoy Alonzo (actor), Maja Salvador (actress), Francis Xavier Pasion (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: James Remar (actor), Jerry Orbach (actor), Telly Savalas (actor), Rip Torn (actor), John Cacavas (composer), Abby Mann (writer), Marcia Gay Harden (actress), Amanda Plummer (actress), Andre Braugher (actor), Gerry Bamman (actor), Terry Kinney (actor), Patrick Breen (actor), John D. Bair (actor), Charles Cioffi (actor), Aaron Sadovsky (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Dana Kaproff (composer), Dana Delany (actress), Mare Winningham (actress), Macon McCalman (actor), Ed O'Neill (actor), James Keach (producer), Fionnula Flanagan (actress), G.W. Bailey (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Charles Hallahan (actor), Art LaFleur (actor), Peter Hobbs (actor), Dennis Weaver (actor), Grady Hunt (costume designer), J.J. Johnston (actor),
Plot: Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball. Pete Gray had to overcome the early taunts of his childhood playmates. With the support of his Pennsylvania coal mining father and his brother, who dreams of being a boxer, he learns to battle for what he wants. Finally in 1943, he is hired to play for a minor league team - the Memphis Chicks in the Class A Southern Association. Initially considered a freak and a box office attraction, he survives the taunts of his teammates and bats .333 his rookie year, steals 63 bases and led the league' outfielders in fielding percentage. Ultimately he won the league's MVP award. In 1945, the St. Louis Browns brought him into the major leagues. A parallel story is also told about the ball player's friendship with a young boy who had also lost his arm and dreamed of one day playing baseball. In fact the idea for the movie came from co-producer James Keach whose brother had gone to school with the younger boy and became aware of the events involving the ball player and boy.
Keywords: 1940s, amputee, athlete, baseball, brother-brother-relationship, father-son-relationship, major-league-baseball, memphis-chicks, most-valuable-player-award, one-armed-manActors: JoBeth Williams (actress), Fred Karlin (composer), Jaleel White (actor), Leo Rossi (actor), Bob Minor (actor), Matthew Faison (actor), Michael Ontkean (actor), Robin Gammell (actor), Branscombe Richmond (actor), Joaquin Phoenix (actor), Jordan Charney (actor), Gary Bayer (actor), Ray Quiroz (miscellaneous crew), Michael Laskin (actor), Sam O'Steen (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lance LeGault (actor), Morton Stevens (composer), Carl Lumbly (actor), Grady Hunt (costume designer), Albert Salmi (actor), Jim Haynie (actor), Slim Pickens (actor), Clifton James (actor), Robert Stack (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Edward Andrews (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Cliff Emmich (actor), Larry K. Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Barry Shear (director),
Plot: The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr. who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testified as a key prosecution witness during the trial of several klansmen for crimes of destruction and murder.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, segregation, witness-for-the-prosecutionActors: Doug McClure (actor), Mathew McCue (actor), George Kennedy (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), Harry Carey Jr. (actor), Strother Martin (actor), Robert 'Buzz' Henry (actor), John Daheim (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), Hoke Howell (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Dabbs Greer (actor), Herman Hack (actor), James Best (actor), Gregg Palmer (actor),
Plot: In Shenandoah, Virginia, the widower farmer Charlie Anderson lives a peaceful life with his six sons - Jacob, James, Nathan, John, Henry and Boy, his daughter Jennie, and his daughter-in-law and James' wife Ann Anderson in his farm. Charlie does not let his sons to join the army to fight in the American Civil War that he considers that it is not their war. Meanwhile Jennie marries to her beloved Lieutenant Sam, but they do not have honeymoon since Sam has to go to the front. When Charlie's youngest son Boy is mistakenly taken prisoner by soldiers from the North. Charlie rides with his sons to rescue Boy, while James and Ann stays in the farm. But it is time of violence and war, and tragedy reaches the Anderson family.
Keywords: 1860s, ambush, american-civil-war, american-south, anti-war, arson, baby-born, battle, battlefield, bayonet