Career
She starred in the independent 2005 horror film Tamara from the producers of Final Destination. The film failed to have box office success only earning worldwide a total of $206,871. The film was released to negative reviews with a rating of
38% on Rotten Tomatoes.
In 2006,she appeared in her most known role to date as Nora Clark in Step Up. A box office success, it earned a total of $119,193,847 worldwide but received mixed to negative reviews. She appeared in another Dance film Take The Lead as Sasha
in a supporting role. The film received extremely negative reviews, but still managed to rank third at the box office.
In 2008, she appeared as the lead role of Amber in the Straight to DVD Romance/Action film Love Lies Bleeding. She appeared as Emma Carr in the Lifetime Made For Television movie Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which premiered
August 2, 2008.
In 2009 she appeared in Falling Awake and Magdalena. She starred alongside Rob Schneider in the comedy film American Virgin, which follows a night of debauchery threatening a sexually abstinent student's college standing. She then appeared in The Six Wives of Henry Lefay alongside Elisha Cuthbert. In January 2010 she also appeared in The Jerk Theory with her
Step Up co-star Josh Henderson.
Along with friends Reid Carolin, Adam Martingano, Brett Rodriguez and husband Channing Tatum, Dewan started a production company called 33andOut Productions. Their first production is a documentary called Earth Made of Glass that follows the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and genocide survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu. The film was selected to premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.