Zac Efron

Acting · Born 1987-10-18 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA

Biography

Zachary David Alexander Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor. Efron began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence as a teen idol for his leading role as Troy Bolton in the High School Musical trilogy (2006–2008). During this time, he also starred in the musical film Hairspray (2007) and the comedy film 17 Again (2009), the former of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Efron had starring roles in the films New Year's Eve (2011), The Lucky One (2012), The Paperboy (2012), Neighbors (2014), Dirty Grandpa (2016), Baywatch (2017), and The Greatest Showman (2017). He played Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) and Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw (2023). In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for hosting the…

Filmography

• Charlie St. Cloud as Charlie St. Cloud
• The Lucky One as Logan Thibault
• The Iron Claw as Kevin Von Erich
• The Disaster Artist as Dan / 'Chris-R'
• The Greatest Showman as Phillip Carlyle
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Ted Bundy
• Scoob! as Fred Jones (voice)
• The Greatest Beer Run Ever as John 'Chickie' Donohue
• Hairspray as Link Larkin
• High School Musical as Troy Bolton

TV

• CSI: Miami as Seth Dawson
• The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Trevor
• NCIS as Daniel Austin
• ER as Bobby Neville
• Robot Chicken as Billy Joel, Mechanic (voice)
• Robot Chicken as Harry Potter, Horrg, Bowling Pin (voice)
• Robot Chicken as Anakin Skywalker, Red Power Ranger, God (voice)
• Firefly as Young Simon
• Down to Earth with Zac Efron as Self
• The Studio as Zac Efron