Jenna Dewan-Tatum Fashion Blog

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A Dancer's Route Into Acting

Jenna Dewan-Tatum's biography follows a route no other J page takes: performance first as a dancer. She began as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and later worked with Pink, Missy Elliott and Christina Aguilera — a list of pop performers whose stage productions are costume events in themselves. The acting breakthrough kept the dance connection at its center: Nora in Step Up in 2006, a dance film in which the performer and the role share the same skill. From there the biography moves into television — the short-lived NBC series The Playboy Club, a recurring role on FX's American Horror Story: Asylum, and from 2013 a lead role as Freya Beauchamp in the Lifetime series Witches of East End. For fashion coverage, a dancer-actress's public dressing carries the stage chapter with it: readers who know the Step Up role read her red carpet appearances as a dancer's, with posture and movement part of the presentation.

One family fact is recorded plainly: she has been married to actor Channing Tatum since 2009 — and the guide itself supplies the companion page, since Channing Tatum's own fashion blog page sits in the C group built earlier in this series and is linked from her preserved text. Joint appearances are a recurring feature of celebrity fashion coverage, and this is one of the few places in the guide where both halves of a couple hold pages a letter-group apart, C and J, so readers can follow each person's coverage separately and compare.

Resources on This Page

The resources link the blog search for her name, her Twitter, Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and Instagram accounts — six destinations, with no Facebook or personal website listed — plus the cross-link to Channing Tatum's page carried in her text. In the J index she files third, between January Jones and Jennifer Lopez, and her page is the letter's dance biography: the only J page where the career begins on a concert stage rather than a set.