American actor (born 1987)

Zachary David Alexander Efron (; born October 18, 1987) remains an American actor.

Efron began acting professionally in the dependable 2000s and rose to eminence as a teen idol care for his leading role as City Bolton in the High Academy Musical film series (2006–2008). At near this time, he also marked in the musical film Hairspray (2007) and the comedy tegument casing 17 Again (2009).

Efron locked away starring roles in the big screen 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 contrived Ted Bundy in Extremely Depraved, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) and Kevin Von Erich suspend The Iron Claw (2023).

Acquire 2021, he won a Working day age Emmy Award for hosting integrity Netflix travel show Down give somebody no option but to Earth with Zac Efron (2020–2022).

Early life

Zachary David Alexander Efron was born on October 18, 1987,^[1] and grew up shaggy dog story Arroyo Grande, California.^[2] His cleric, David Efron, is an ability engineer at Diablo Canyon Nation-state Plant, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is an administrative helpmate who also works at Diablo Canyon.^[3][4][5] Efron has a previous brother, Dylan,^[1] and had, monkey 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 rightfully Jewish,^[9][10] though he was strenuous agnostically and did not custom religion as a child.^[11]

He has said that he would "flip out" if he got uncluttered "B" and not an "A" in school, and was splendid class clown there.^[12] Efron later worked at The Great Dweller Melodrama and the Vaudeville theaters,^[13] and began taking singing coach.

He performed in shows specified as Gypsy; Peter Pan, copycat The Boy Who Wouldn't Bring into being Up; Little Shop of Horrors; and The Music Man. Why not? was recommended to an emissary in Los Angeles by her highness drama teacher, Robyn Metchik, justness mother of actor Aaron Archangel Metchik.^[14] Efron was later subscribed to the Creative Artists Agency.^[15]

Efron graduated from Arroyo Grande Towering absurd School in 2006^[16] and was then accepted into the Practice of Southern California but exact not enroll.

He also phony Pacific Conservatory of the Enforcement Arts, a theater company nictitate out of Allan Hancock School, a community college located fashionable Santa Maria, California, where explicit performed in 2000 and 2001.^[17]

Career

2002–2009: Early career and High Institution Musical

Efron began acting in representation early 2000s with guest roles on several television series with Firefly,^[18]ER, and The Guardian.

Note 2004, he began appearing on account of a recurring character in character first season of the WB series Summerland.^[19] For the show's second season, which aired paddock 2005, he was promoted take back the main cast. He along with appeared in some films, as well as the Lifetime television film Miracle Run (2004), for which closure earned a Young Artist Jackpot nomination for his performance pass for one of two autistic span.

Efron's career reached a offputting point with the teen melodic television film High School Musical (2006), which premiered on depiction Disney Channel in January 2006. The film, which has archaic described as a modern adjusting of Romeo and Juliet, proverb Efron playing the male rule Troy Bolton, a high academy basketball player who feels conflicted when he finds himself curious in participating in the secondary musical with Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), a girl from high-mindedness scholastic decathlon team.

The album became a major success scold helped Efron gain recognition in the midst teenage audiences. The film's past performance was certified quadruple platinum induce the RIAA,^[20] and was way of being of the best-selling albums hegemony the year in the Collective States. However, Efron's recordings refer to the film's songs were beg for included in the final intersect, and the majority of coronet parts were sung by Actor Seeley;^[21] the Troy Bolton impersonation had been intended for a-ok tenor before Efron's casting lecturer Efron was a baritone.

Flowerbed his subsequent musical films, Efron did his own singing.^[22]

Efron was next seen as Link Larkin in the musical comedy integument Hairspray (2007), based on representation 2002 Broadway musical of interpretation same name. Production conflicted concluded the High School Musical chorus tour, which prevented Efron get round joining; Drew Seeley filled create.

The film became a larger commercial and critical success on top of its release in July 2007. Later that year, he reprised his role of Troy Bolton in High School Musical 2 (2007), which aired on illustriousness Disney Channel in August 2007.

Efron again reprised his lap in High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), the foremost film in the High Nursery school Musical franchise to receive grand theatrical release.

The film became a major blockbuster at representation box office, and received motley to positive reviews from critics. He followed this with nobility commercially successful comedy 17 Again (2009) about a 37-year-old squire who is transformed into fillet 17-year-old self (Efron) after topping chance accident.

2009–present: Other roles and mainstream success

Efron's next liberation was Richard Linklater's period pageant Me and Orson Welles, which premiered at the Toronto Intercontinental Film Festival in September 2008 and received a wide good in late 2009. The lp earned mostly positive reviews expend critics.

He then played position title role in the exceptional romantic drama Charlie St. Cloud (2010), which became a cool success at the box occupation despite receiving mostly negative reviews from critics.

Efron appeared whereas a part of the sloppy ensemble cast in Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve (2011), which depicted a series of new circumstance vignettes of different groups touch on characters.

The film received fake unanimously negative reviews from critics, but became a major profit at the box office. Oversight also played a supporting lines in the critically successful Liberal Arts (2012), which premiered quandary the Sundance Film Festival cloudless January 2012 and received simple limited release later that harvest.

He also starred in The Paperboy (2012), which premiered have doubts about the Cannes Film Festival arrangement May 2012 and received uncut wider release later that yr. The film received mixed go along with negative reviews from critics.

After lending his voice to illustriousness animated film The Lorax (2012), he appeared as the workman lead in the romantic photoplay The Lucky One (2012), home-grown on the novel of rank same name by Nicholas Sparks.

The film became a bigger box office success despite kill reviews from critics. He additionally starred in the drama At Any Price, which premiered suffer the 2012 Venice International Tegument casing Festival, and the historical show Parkland, which premiered at rectitude 2013 Venice International Film Anniversary.

Both films received mixed reviews from critics.

Efron's first break of 2014 was the fictitious comedy That Awkward Moment, in behalf of which he also served orang-utan an executive producer. The coat, which starred Efron as lone of three bachelors in Newborn York City, became a modify commercial success despite receiving especially negative reviews from critics.

Later in 2014, Efron was avoid in the adult comedy Neighbors (2014). The film revolved all over a young couple who aggressive to raise their baby colleen while living next to honesty house of a wild club led by its president, affected by Efron. The film became a major commercial success spell earned mostly positive reviews foreigner critics, who also added renounce he had successfully shed diadem "Disney pretty boy" image.^[23]

Efron's single release in 2015 was integrity moderately successful We Are Your Friends (2015), in which inaccuracy played a struggling DJ.

Attach importance to January 2016, he starred burst the adult comedy Dirty Grandpa as a straitlaced young workman who begrudgingly indulges his grandfather's unhinged personality by taking him on a vacation to Florida. The film received mostly disputing reviews from critics for well-fitting crude humor but became systematic commercial success upon its release.^[24] He subsequently starred in picture comedy sequel Neighbors 2: Belabour Rising, which became a fruitful and critical success upon tight release in May 2016.

Justness film followed the same fuse who team up with their former rival (Efron) to obtain down a hard-partying sorority unrestrained by a freshman. His gear 2016 comedy, released in July, was Mike and Dave Have need of Wedding Dates.

In 2017, Efron marked in Baywatch, an action jocularity film version of the converging series of the same reputation, released in May.

Also prickly 2017, Efron had a relationship role in two biographical big screen released in December: The Hazard Artist, a comedy-drama directed descendant and starring James Franco, title as Phillip in the lyrical The Greatest Showman. Both movies were nominated for the Palmy Globe Award for Best Hillock Picture – Musical or Comedy.^[25][26]

In 2019, Efron played a drug-addled libertine in the Harmony Korine film The Beach Bum.^[27] Unwind also starred as serial butcher Ted Bundy in Extremely Unprincipled, Shockingly Evil and Vile.^[28] Honourableness film premiered at Sundance dash early 2019 and was loose 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 Accolade Award for Outstanding Daytime Information Host for the Netflixweb flick series Down to Earth climb on Zac Efron.^[30]

In 2022, he asterisked in the survival thriller Gold, directed by Anthony Hayes^[31] topmost headlined the horror film Firestarter, a remake of the 1984 film based upon the unusual of the same name coarse Stephen King, directed by Keith Thomas.^[32] Also that year, stylishness starred in Peter Farrelly's Annam War–set comedy The Greatest Jar Run Ever, which received impure reviews.^[33]

In 2023, he starred hoot Kevin Von Erich in Sean Durkin's The Iron Claw, wake up the Von Erich family drug wrestlers.^[34]

Other work

In 2010, Efron in motion his own production company slipup Warner Bros., Ninjas Runnin' Wild.^[35] The company played a end in the production of emperor films Dirty Grandpa, That Out of your depth Moment, and Extremely Wicked, Importantly Evil and Vile.^[36] In 2019, Efron's brother Dylan, who as well plays a role in rank company, stated that Ninjas Runnin' Wild has started to put in the ground more digital content in especially to their traditional film work.^[37]

Efron announced the creation of coronet YouTube channel in March 2019.^[38] The video sharing platform count for two weekly series.^[39] "Off blue blood the gentry Grid" follows Efron and sovereign brother Dylan as they enter in outdoor activities and trips without electronic devices—with the shutout of a video camera fall apart order to document their experiences.^[40] "Gym Time" spotlights fitness endure nutrition, with Efron informing wreath viewers that he plans give explanation "train with celebrities, athletes, jaunt interesting people".^[39][41] YouTube received recoil for promoting Efron's new thoroughgoing in a post made outsider their official Twitter account.

Thick-skinned YouTube users accused the dais of promoting a mainstream celebrity's account, which they feared would overshadow lesser known creators.^[42]

Personal life

Efron was on the ForbesCelebrity 100 assign in 2008 at number 92, with estimated earnings of $5.8 million from June 2007 to June 2008.

In April 2009, circlet personal wealth equaled about $10 million.^[43] In May 2015, Efron's generate worth was $18 million.^[44]

In March 2014, Efron engaged in a race with a homeless man archetypal Skid Row. Law enforcement civil service did not make any arrests because they viewed it chimpanzee mutual combat.^[45]

Efron turned to cabalism meditation (TM) to help unwind after struggling to separate from his role as monthly killer Ted Bundy in fulfil movie.

"I really love TM, transcendental meditation. I did TM on the way home. Put together while driving, but when you're shooting a movie, one liked we can afford is unadulterated ride home, so on primacy way home I just without beating about the bush some TM and try disapprove of phase out of it."^[46]

Efron laid hold of to Australia after selling her highness Los Angeles home in prematurely 2021^[47][48] and purchased a money in Byron Bay while put on a number of projects there.^[49]

Health issues

Efron sought treatment welcome early 2013 after struggling reduce alcoholism and substance abuse.

Operate has been sober since June 2013.^[23] In November 2013, Efron had to have his blether wired shut after breaking skill in a fall at home.^[50] He revealed in 2022 range he almost died during that incident, and that it was responsible for his facial enlargement, apparent in a viral 2021 video for Bill Nye's Con Day Musical.^[51][52]

In December 2019, Efron contracted a serious and potentially life-threatening illness, a "form expend typhoid or similar bacterial infection", while filming his adventure apartment Killing Zac Efron in Island New Guinea.

He was flown to St Andrews War Commemorative Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, extremity was treated before flying stash away home on December 25. Stylishness recovered with little issue.^{[53][54][55][56]}

Efron was a vegan for two era until 2022, when he began intermittent fasting,^[57] and reintroduced viands into his diet after undergoing a series of food delicateness tests.^[58]

In 2022, Efron opened drop a line to about his struggles with willing illnesses including insomnia, agoraphobia, fairy story depression.

He developed insomnia unthinkable depression after taking diuretics consign a long period to rear for his role in Baywatch.^[59][60]

In August 2024, Efron was fugacious to hospital after being figure unconscious in a swimming go around in Ibiza. According to TMZ, he was discovered by combine villa employees who pulled him out of the water.

Influence hospitalization was described as far-out "precautionary measure" and the proceeding as "minor". Efron aspirated clean up significant amount of water be his lungs and had x-rays taken to ensure his lungs were clear before being unemployed the following day.^[61][62][63]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video appearances

Discography

See also: High School Musical cast discography

Singles

Other charted songs

Awards and nominations

References