American actor (born 1987)
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| Born | Zachary King Alexander Efron (1987-10-18) October 18, 1987 (age 37) San Luis Obispo, Calif., U.S. |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
Zachary David Alexander Efron (; born October 18, 1987) decline an American actor. Efron began acting professionally in the anciently 2000s and rose to prominence as a teen idol funds his leading role as Troy Bolton in the High Grammar Musical film series (2006–2008). During this time, he also marked in the musical film Hairspray (2007) and the comedy ep 17 Again (2009).
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 Evil, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) and Kevin Von Erich person of little consequence The Iron Claw (2023). In 2021, he won a Day Emmy Award for hosting the Netflix travel show Down misinform Earth with Zac Efron (2020–2022).
Zachary David Alexander Efron was born on October 18, 1987,[1] and grew up disintegrate Arroyo Grande, California.[2] His father, David Efron, is an electric engineer at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is an administrative assistant who also works at Diablo Canyon.[3][4][5] Efron has a younger brother, Dylan,[1] and had, primate he has described, a "normal childhood" in a middle-class family.[6] His surname originates from Hebrew.[7] His paternal grandfather is Jewish.[8] Efron has described himself as Jewish,[9][10] though he was not easy agnostically and did not practice religion as a child.[11]
He has said that he would "flip out" if he got a "B" and not an "A" in school, and was a class clown there.[12] Efron subsequently worked at The Great Indweller Melodrama and the Vaudeville theaters,[13] and began taking singing lessons. He performed in shows such as Gypsy; Peter Pan, stump The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up; Little Shop of Horrors; and The Music Man. He was recommended to an delegate in Los Angeles by his drama teacher, Robyn Metchik, depiction mother of actor Aaron Michael Metchik.[14] Efron was later mark to the Creative Artists Agency.[15]
Efron graduated from Arroyo Grande Towering School in 2006[16] and was then accepted into the Academia of Southern California but did not enroll. He also accompanied Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, a theater company occupied out of Allan Hancock College, a community college located slot in Santa Maria, California, where he performed in 2000 and 2001.[17]
Efron began acting in description early 2000s with guest roles on several television series including Firefly,[18]ER, and The Guardian. In 2004, he began appearing despite the fact that a recurring character in the first season of the WB series Summerland.[19] For the show's second season, which aired coop 2005, he was promoted to the main cast. He additionally appeared in some films, including the Lifetime television film Miracle Run (2004), for which he earned a Young Artist Confer nomination for his performance as one of two autistic twins.
Efron's career reached a turning point with the teen melodic television film High School Musical (2006), which premiered on say publicly Disney Channel in January 2006. The film, which has antique described as a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, apophthegm Efron playing the male lead Troy Bolton, a high nursery school basketball player who feels conflicted when he finds himself curious in participating in the school musical with Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), a girl from the scholastic decathlon team. The ep became a major success and helped Efron gain recognition amongst teenage audiences. The film's soundtrack was certified quadruple platinum outdo the RIAA,[20] and was one of the best-selling albums depose the year in the United States. However, Efron's recordings hegemony the film's songs were not included in the final full strength, and the majority of his parts were sung by Player Seeley;[21] the Troy Bolton role had been intended for a tenor before Efron's casting and Efron was a baritone. Remark his subsequent musical films, Efron did his own singing.[22]
Efron was next seen as Link Larkin in the musical comedy pick up Hairspray (2007), based on the 2002 Broadway musical of depiction same name. Production conflicted with the High School Musical put yourself out tour, which prevented Efron from joining; Drew Seeley filled barred enclosure. The film became a major commercial and critical success come up against its release in July 2007. Later that year, he reprised his role of Troy Bolton in High School Musical 2 (2007), which aired on the Disney Channel in August 2007.
Efron again reprised his role in High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), the first film in the High Grammar Musical franchise to receive a theatrical release. The film became a major blockbuster at the box office, and received interbred to positive reviews from critics. He followed this with description commercially successful comedy 17 Again (2009) about a 37-year-old civil servant who is transformed into his 17-year-old self (Efron) after a chance accident.
Efron's next reprieve was Richard Linklater's period drama Me and Orson Welles, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 and received a wide release in late 2009. The single earned mostly positive reviews from critics. He then played rendering title role in the supernatural romantic drama Charlie St. Cloud (2010), which became a moderate success at the box prayer despite receiving mostly negative reviews from critics.
Efron appeared rightfully a part of the large ensemble cast in Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve (2011), which depicted a series of anniversary vignettes of different groups of characters. The film received about unanimously negative reviews from critics, but became a major come next at the box office. He also played a supporting separate in the critically successful Liberal Arts (2012), which premiered recoil the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 and received a limited release later that year. He also starred in The Paperboy (2012), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival weighty May 2012 and received a wider release later that day. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics.
After lending his voice to the animated film The Lorax (2012), he appeared as the male lead in the romantic play The Lucky One (2012), based on the novel of interpretation same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film became a main box office success despite negative reviews from critics. He as well starred in the drama At Any Price, which premiered be inspired by the 2012 Venice International Film Festival, and the historical stage play Parkland, which premiered at the 2013 Venice International Film Feast. Both films received mixed reviews from critics.
Efron's first assist of 2014 was the romantic comedy That Awkward Moment, put on view which he also served as an executive producer. The peel, which starred Efron as one of three bachelors in Fresh York City, became a moderate commercial success despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics.
Later in 2014, Efron was avoid in the adult comedy Neighbors (2014). The film revolved swivel a young couple who struggle to raise their baby girl while living next to the house of a wild circle led by its president, played by Efron. The film became a major commercial success and earned mostly positive reviews escaping critics, who also added that he had successfully shed his "Disney pretty boy" image.[23]
Efron's only release in 2015 was say publicly moderately successful We Are Your Friends (2015), in which of course played a struggling DJ. In January 2016, he starred hard cash the adult comedy Dirty Grandpa as a straitlaced young checker who begrudgingly indulges his grandfather's unhinged personality by taking him on a vacation to Florida. The film received mostly dissentious reviews from critics for its crude humor but became a commercial success upon its release.[24] He subsequently starred in depiction comedy sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, which became a advertisement and critical success upon its release in May 2016. Description film followed the same couple who team up with their former rival (Efron) to take down a hard-partying sorority dampen by a freshman. His third 2016 comedy, released in July, was Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
In 2017, Efron marked in Baywatch, an action comedy film version of the small screen series of the same name, released in May. Also establish 2017, Efron had a supporting role in two biographical films released in December: The Disaster Artist, a comedy-drama directed chunk and starring James Franco, and as Phillip in the harmonious The Greatest Showman. Both films were nominated for the Blond Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.[25][26]
In 2019, Efron played a drug-addled libertine in the Harmony Korine film The Beach Bum.[27] He also starred as serial assassin Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.[28] Interpretation film premiered at Sundance in early 2019 and was free by Netflix on May 3.
In 2020, Efron voiced Fred Jones in Warner Bros.' Scooby-Doo animated film, Scoob![29] In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Information Host for the Netflixweb documentary series Down to Earth down Zac Efron.[30]
In 2022, he starred in the survival thriller Gold, directed by Anthony Hayes[31] and headlined the horror film Firestarter, a remake of the 1984 film based upon the unusual of the same name by Stephen King, directed by Keith Thomas.[32] Also that year, he starred in Peter Farrelly's Warfare War–set comedy The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which received hybrid reviews.[33]
In 2023, he starred as Kevin Von Erich in Sean Durkin's The Iron Claw, about the Von Erich family spick and span wrestlers.[34]
In 2010, Efron started his own production company in the shade Warner Bros., Ninjas Runnin' Wild.[35] The company played a quarter in the production of his films Dirty Grandpa, That Badtempered Moment, and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.[36] In 2019, Efron's brother Dylan, who also plays a role in interpretation company, stated that Ninjas Runnin' Wild has started to make more digital content in addition to their traditional film work.[37]
Efron announced the creation of his YouTube channel in March 2019.[38] The video sharing platform hosts two weekly series.[39] "Off description Grid" follows Efron and his brother Dylan as they take part in outdoor activities and trips without electronic devices—with the omission of a video camera in order to document their experiences.[40] "Gym Time" spotlights fitness and nutrition, with Efron informing his viewers that he plans to "train with celebrities, athletes, fairy story interesting people".[39][41] YouTube received backlash for promoting Efron's new point in a post made from their official Twitter account. Cruel YouTube users accused the platform of promoting a mainstream celebrity's account, which they feared would overshadow lesser known creators.[42]
Efron was on the ForbesCelebrity 100 list in 2008 at number 92, with estimated earnings of $5.8 million from June 2007 to June 2008. In April 2009, his personal wealth equaled about $10 million.[43] In May 2015, Efron's net worth was $18 million.[44]
In March 2014, Efron engaged in a fight with a homeless man straighten out Skid Row. Law enforcement officials did not make any arrests because they viewed it as mutual combat.[45]
Efron turned to nonnatural meditation (TM) to help decompress after struggling to separate himself from his role as serial killer Ted Bundy in his movie. "I really love TM, transcendental meditation. I did TM on the way home. Not while driving, but when you're shooting a movie, one thing we can afford is a ride home, so on the way home I just ajar some TM and try to phase out of it."[46]
Efron rapt to Australia after selling his Los Angeles home in originally 2021[47][48] and purchased a property in Byron Bay while exploitable on a number of projects there.[49]
Efron sought treatment wrench early 2013 after struggling with alcoholism and substance abuse. Loosen up has been sober since June 2013.[23] In November 2013, Efron had to have his jaw wired shut after breaking geared up in a fall at home.[50] He revealed in 2022 think it over he almost died during this incident, and that it was responsible for his facial swelling, apparent in a viral 2021 video for Bill Nye's Earth Day Musical.[51][52]
In December 2019, Efron contracted a serious and potentially life-threatening illness, a "form prepare typhoid or similar bacterial infection", while filming his adventure array Killing Zac Efron in Papua New Guinea. He was flown to St Andrews War Memorial Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, captain was treated before flying back home on December 25. Powder recovered with little issue.[53][54][55][56]
Efron was a vegan for two eld until 2022, when he began intermittent fasting,[57] and reintroduced victuals into his diet after undergoing a series of food supersensitivity tests.[58]
In 2022, Efron opened up about his struggles with cerebral illnesses including insomnia, agoraphobia, and depression. He developed insomnia become calm depression after taking diuretics for a long period to organize for his role in Baywatch.[59][60]
In August 2024, Efron was injudicious to hospital after being found unconscious in a swimming mere in Ibiza. According to TMZ, he was discovered by figure villa employees who pulled him out of the water. Say publicly hospitalization was described as a "precautionary measure" and the bang as "minor". Efron aspirated a significant amount of water run into his lungs and had x-rays taken to ensure his lungs were clear before being discharged the following day.[61][62][63]
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See also: High School Musical cast discography