Zac Efron

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1987-10-18 (37 years old)

Place of Birth San Luis Obispo, California, USA

Also Known As Zachary David Alexander Efron, זאק אפרון, Zachary Efron, 잭 에프론, Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron, Ζακ Έφρον, Zaks Efrons

Zac Efron

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 Netflix travel show Down to Earth with Zac Efron (2020–2022).

Known For

Actor

Famous

as Lance Dunkquist / James Jansen

Night Business

as Johnny Timothy

2024
A Family Affair

as Chris Cole

2024
Ricky Stanicky

as Dean Stanton

2023
The Iron Claw

as Kevin Von Erich

2022
The Greatest Beer Run Ever

as John 'Chickie' Donohue

2022
Firestarter

as Andy McGee

2022
Gold

as Virgil

2020
Scoob!

as Fred Jones (voice)

2019
The Beach Bum

as Flicker

2019
Human Discoveries

as Gary (voice)

2017
The Greatest Showman

as Phillip Carlyle

2017
Baywatch

as Matt Brody

2017
The Disaster Artist

as Dan / "Chris-R"

2016
2016
Dirty Grandpa

as Jason Kelly

2015
Hot Ones

as Self

2014
2014
Neighbors

as Teddy Sanders

2014
2014
73 Questions

as Self

2013
Parkland

as Jim Carrico

2012
The Paperboy

as Jack Jansen

2012
2012
At Any Price

as Dean Whipple

2012
The Lucky One

as Logan Thibault

2012
The Lorax

as Ted Wiggins (voice)

2011
2010
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III

as Anakin Skywalker (voice)

2010
Charlie St. Cloud

as Charlie St. Cloud

2010
Conan

as Self

2009
Zac Efron: The Ultimate Idol

as Self (Archived Footage)

2009
17 Again

as Mike O'Donnell

2008
Me and Orson Welles

as Richard Samuels

2007
High School Musical 2

as Troy Bolton

2007
Hairspray

as Link Larkin

2007
The Graham Norton Show

as Self - Guest

2006
2006
High School Musical

as Troy Bolton

2006
The Replacements

as Davey Hunkerhoff

2006
Heist

as Pizza Delivery Guy

2005
The Derby Stallion

as Patrick McCardle

2005
Robot Chicken

as Billy Joel, Mechanic (voice)

2005
Robot Chicken

as Anakin Skywalker, Red Power Ranger, God (voice)

2005
Robot Chicken

as Harry Potter, Horrg, Bowling Pin (voice)

2004
Miracle Run

as Steven Morgan

2004
Entourage

as Zac Efron

2004
Summerland

as Cameron Bale

2003
Melinda's World

as Stuart Wasser

2003
NCIS

as Daniel Austin

2003
Punk'd

as Self

2003
2002
CSI: Miami

as Seth Dawson

2002
Firefly

as Young Simon

2001
The Guardian

as Luke Tomello

1997
The View

as Self

1994
ER

as Bobby Neville

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Producer

Killing Zac Efron

as Executive Producer

2020
The Great Global Cleanup

as Executive Producer

2020
Down to Earth with Zac Efron

as Executive Producer

2019
Human Discoveries

as Executive Producer

2014
That Awkward Moment

as Executive Producer