Zac Efron
Acting
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 Netflix travel show Down to Earth with Zac Efron (2020–2022).
Known For
NCIS
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Conan
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
CSI: Miami
The View
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
ER
Entourage
Hot Ones
Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Firefly
The Guardian
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
Punk'd
The Studio
The Replacements
Catfish: The TV Show
High School Musical
Baywatch
The Greatest Showman
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
The Lucky One
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