Zac Efron
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
Credits
- 2024 · Child Star as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2024 · A Family Affair as Chris Cole
- 2024 · NCISverse: The First 1,000 as Self
- 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
- 2021 · Save Ralph as Bobby (voice)
- 2020 · Down to Earth with Zac Efron as Self
- 2020 · Scoob! as Fred Jones (voice)
- 2020 · Dude Perfect: Backstage Pass as Himself
- 2020 · The Great Global Cleanup as Self
- 2020 · The Disney Family Singalong as Self
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · Human Discoveries as Gary (voice)
- 2019 · Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Ted Bundy
- 2019 · The Beach Bum as Flicker
- 2017 · The Greatest Showman as Phillip Carlyle
- 2017 · Baywatch as Matt Brody
- 2017 · The Disaster Artist as Dan / "Chris-R"
- 2016 · Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates as Dave Stangle
- 2016 · Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising as Teddy Sanders
- 2016 · Dirty Grandpa as Jason Kelly
- 2016 · High School Musical: 10th Anniversary as (uncredited)
- 2015 · We Are Your Friends as Cole
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2014 · 21 Years: Richard Linklater as Self - Actor
- 2014 · Running Wild with Bear Grylls as Self
- 2014 · Neighbors as Teddy Sanders
- 2014 · Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise as Superboy / Brainiac (voice)
- 2014 · 73 Questions as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2014 · That Awkward Moment as Jason
- 2014 · HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as
- 2013 · Parkland as Jim Carrico
- 2012 · Catfish: The TV Show as Self
- 2012 · The Paperboy as Jack Jansen
- 2012 · Liberal Arts as Nat
- 2012 · At Any Price as Dean Whipple
- 2012 · The Lucky One as Logan Thibault
- 2012 · The Lorax as Ted Wiggins (voice)
- 2011 · New Year's Eve as Paul
- 2010 · Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III as Anakin Skywalker (voice)
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Charlie St. Cloud as Charlie St. Cloud
- 2009 · Zac Efron: The Ultimate Idol as Self (Archived Footage)
- 2009 · Zac Efron's Pool Party as Self
- 2009 · 17 Again as Mike O'Donnell
- 2008 · High School Musical 3: Making Of A Musical as Self
- 2008 · High School Musical 3: Senior Year as Troy Bolton
- 2008 · Me and Orson Welles as Richard Samuels
- 2007 · High School Musical 2 as Troy Bolton
- 2007 · Hairspray as Link Larkin
- 2007 · Road To High School Musical 2 as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · High School Musical: Remix as Troy Bolton
- 2006 · The Replacements as Davey Hunkerhoff
- 2006 · If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now as Cody
- 2006 · Disney Channel Games as Self
- 2006 · Heist as Pizza Delivery Guy
- 2006 · High School Musical as Troy Bolton
- 2005 · The Derby Stallion as Patrick McCardle
- 2005 · The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Trevor
- 2005 · Robot Chicken as Billy Joel, Mechanic (voice)
- 2005 · Robot Chicken as Harry Potter, Horrg, Bowling Pin (voice)
- 2005 · Robot Chicken as Anakin Skywalker, Red Power Ranger, God (voice)
- 2004 · Miracle Run as Steven Morgan
- 2004 · Entourage as Zac Efron
- 2004 · Summerland as Cameron Bale
- 2003 · NCIS as Daniel Austin
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · The Big Wide World of Carl Laemke as Pete Laemke
- 2003 · Punk'd as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 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
- 1992 · MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Future · Killing Zac Efron as
- Future · Night Business as Johnny Timothy
- 2003 · Melinda's World as Stuart Wasser
- Future · Famous as Lance Dunkquist / James Jansen
- Future · Three Men and a Baby as