Dear John

About the actors.

John is played by Channing Tatum.

Savannah is played by Amanda Seyfried.

Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum is born April 26, 1980.

He was born in Cullman, Alabama.

His ancestry includes Irish, French and Native American. Tatum’s family moved to Mississippi when he was 6, and he grew up near the Mississippi River.

Tatum was athletic while growing up, playing football, soccer, track, baseball, and performing martial arts. As a child, he practiced kung fu. 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. Afterwards, Tatum was awarded a football scholarship to Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia, but he turned it down. He returned home and started working.

Tatum was first cast as a dancer in Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" music video.

His first experience was in the fashion industry as a model, working for such noted clients such as Armani and Abercrombie & Fitch. He soon moved into television commercials, landing national spots for Mountain Dew and Pepsi in 2002.

In 2004 he started his acting career. He has starred in She's the Man, Step Up, Fighting, Public Enemies, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and of course Dear John.

Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Michelle Seyfried is born December 3, 1985. She was born in Allentown, Lehigh Country, Pennsylvania. Her mother Ann is an occupational therapist and her father Jack is a pharmacist. Her older sister Jennifer is a musician in the Philadelphia organ-driven rock band Love City.

Amanda graduated in 2003 from Allentown’s William Allen High School.

She began her acting career in 1995 when she was 9 and she began modeling when she was 11. She stopped modeling when she was 17. Seyfried took voice lessons, studied opera, and trained with a Broadway coach while still a teen. She began acting as an uncredited extra in the daytime drama television series Guiding Light.

In 2004, Seyfried made her film debut in Mean Girls playing Karen Smith, the ditziest of the so-called "Plastics". Her subsequent films include Nine Lives (2005) and Alpha Dog (2006). In 2006, she landed a lead role on HBO's popular television series Big Love. After that, Seyfried appeared as Sophie Sheridan in the 2008 musical feature film Mamma Mia!. Other recent appearances include lead roles in Jennifer's Body, Chloe, Veronica Mars, Letters to Juliet and of course Dear John.