Samaire Armstrong
AGE 25
HOMETOWN Sedona, Ariz.
BREAKOUT ROLE Seth Cohen's on-and-off gal pal Anna Stern on Fox's The O.C.
MADE FOR MTV A music-video vet, Samaire appeared in Hanson's 'Penny and Me' and Daniel Powter's 'Bad Day' clips. 'I'm not sick of [the song],' she says of the latter, often played during American Idol's results shows. 'It was the coolest thing to see it go from an underground hit in Europe to all over the United States!'
NEXT UP She'll star in It's a Boy Girl Thing (early 2007), a Freaky Friday-like flick about two enemies'Nell, the town nerd (Samaire), and Woody, the school jock (Kevin Zegers)'who switch bodies.
Channing Tatum
AGE 26
HOMETOWN Cullman, Ala.
BREAKOUT ROLE Duke, the dopey but sweet soccer jock in She's the Man
MODEL BEHAVIOR The former mannequin admits he had his own 'Blue Steel' look, just like Ben Stiller in 2001's Zoolander. 'So many funny things happen when you're at a photo shoot,' he says. 'The photographer will [say], 'Be a horse, frolic in the hay!' or '[You're] a young horse, a fawn.'' You're like, 'What the hell?' But I guess it's training for acting.'
NEXT UP He'll show off his dance moves as a good-hearted juvenile delinquent sentenced to do community service at a performing-arts school in Step Up (think: the 2006 version of Save the Last Dance). Then he'll play a U.S. soldier in Iraq in the 2007 drama Stop-Loss, with Ryan Phillippe.
