Zac Efron

Zachary David Alexander Efron, better known as Zac Efron, is an American actor and musician. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence in the late 2000s as Troy Bolton in the High School Musical franchise (2006-2008). He also starred in the musical Hairspray (2007) and the comedy 17 Again during this time (2009).

After then, he became well-known for his appearances in the films New Year’s Eve (2011), The Lucky One (2012), and The Paperboy (2013). (2012). Neighbors (2014), Dirty Grandpa (2016), Baywatch (2017), and The Greatest Snowman (2017) are among the films he has worked on (2017). In Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, Efron played Ted Bundy (2019). In 2021, he received a Daytime Emmy Award for his work on the Netflix web documentary series Down to Earth with Zac Efron (2020-present).

How much is the Net Worth of Zac Efron in 2022?

Efron is an American professional actor and singer who has been working since 2002. In 2008, 2009, and 2015, he was named to the Forbes Celebrity 100 list three times. As of 2022, Efron’s net worth is predicted to be over $25 million.

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How old is Zac Efron?

Zachary David Alexander Efron was born on October 18, 1987, in San Luis Obispo, California, and is 34 years old as of 2021. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dawn Wells, Brittney Griner, Chuck Lorre, David Twohy, Joe Morton, and Joy Bryant are among the celebrities who share his birthday.

Zac Efron Family

Who are Zac Efron’s parents?

Zacahry David Alexander Efron was born to David Efron and Starla Baskett in San Luis Obispo, California. His father works as an electrical engineer at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and his mother also works there as an administrative assistant. Later, the family relocated to Arroyo Grande, California, where he was raised. His surname comes from the Hebrews, and his paternal grandpa was Jewish.

Does Zac Efron have siblings?

Efron is the oldest of three children in his family. Brother Dylan Efron and paternal half-sister Olivia are his younger siblings.

Zac Efron Education

Efron graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in 2006. He was accepted to the University of Southern California, but he chose not to attend. Efron has joined Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, a theatre company based at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California.

Zac Efron Interests

While working in the show The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, Efron developed an interest in music and began taking lessons. Gypsy, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Little Shop of Horrors, and The Music Man were among his later roles.

Despite being raised agnostic and not practicing religion as a child, Efron identifies as Jewish. After struggling to distance himself from his role as a serial killer, he turned to transcendental meditation (TM) to help him decompress. Efron has his own Warner Bros. production firm, Ninjas Runnin’ Wild, which has worked on a number of films in which he has starred.

Zac Efron Height

Efron’s body is well-built, athletic, and physically fit, with a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters) and a weight of 75 kilograms (165 lbs).

Zac Efron Girlfriend

Efron is presently unmarried and single. He had previously been linked to Vanessa Hudgens’s relationship, which began in 2005 during the filming of High School Musical. The two, however, split up in December 2010. In September 2014, he began dating model and entrepreneur Sami Miro, but the relationship ended in April 2016. He was previously married to Vanessa Valladares, but the couple split up in 2021.

Zac Efron Kids

Efron is now single and unmarried, and he does not have any children of his own.

Zac Efron career

2002-2009: Early career and High School Musical

2002-2006

Efron began acting in the early 2000s, appearing in guest appearances on shows like Firefly, ER, and The Guardian. In 2004, he made his debut appearance as a recurring character in the WB sitcom Summerland’s first season. For the show’s second season, which aired in 2005, Efron was promoted to the main cast. He starred in several films, including the Lifetime television film Miracle Run (2004), for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award for his portrayal of one of two autistic twins.

High School Musical (2006), an adolescent musical television film that premiered on the Disney Channel in January 2006, marked a turning point in his career. A modern rendition of Romeo and Juliet is described as the film. He portrayed Troy Bolton, a high school basketball player who is torn between his desire to participate in the school musical and his attraction to Gabriella Montez ( Vanessa Hudgens), a girl from the scholastic decathlon squad.

2007-2009

The picture, which also starred Lucas Grabeel, Ashley Tisdale, Monique Coleman, and Corbin Bleu, was a box office hit and helped Efron achieve recognition among adolescent audiences. The soundtrack was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, making it one of the best-selling albums of the year in the US. When it was found that his voice had been combined with Drew Seeley’s on the soundtrack, Efron’s singing abilities were uncovered; however, he stressed that the songs were created before he was cast and thus did not fit his more baritone vocal range. He directed his own musical flicks after that.

Efron then starred as Link Larkin in Hairspray (2007), a musical comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name. After its release in July 2008, the film became a major commercial and critical success. Later that year, he played Troy Bolton again in High School Musical 2 (2007), which premiered on the Disney Channel in August 2007.

Later, in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, he repeated his role as Troy Bolton (2008). This was the first film in the High School Musical series to be released in theaters. It was a tremendous box office success, receiving mixed to positive reviews from reviewers. Following that, Efron starred in the financially successful comedy 17 Again (2019), about a 37-year-old guy (Matthew Perry) who is accidentally changed into his 17-year-old self (Efron).

2009-present: Other work and mainstream success

2009-2012

Richard Linklater’s period drama Me and Orson Welles was Efron’s next release. In September 2008, it had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it was released in late 2009. The majority of critics gave the film positive reviews. After that, he starred as Charlie St. Cloud in the supernatural romance drama Charlie St. Cloud (2010), which was a moderate box office success despite generally unfavorable reviews from critics. Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve (2011) featured Efron as part of a big ensemble cast portraying a series of Christmas vignettes of various groupings of characters. The picture received virtually universally unfavorable reviews from reviewers, but it was a box office smash.

He then appeared in Liberal Arts (2012), a critically acclaimed film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 and received a limited release later that year. In The Paperboy, Efron featured alongside Nicole Kidman, David Oyelowo, Matthew McConaughey, and John Cusack (2012). The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012, and was released later that year. Critics gave it mixed to unfavorable reviews as well. After that, he gives his voice to the critically acclaimed computer-animated film The Lorax (2012). Following that, he starred as the male protagonist in the romantic drama The Lucky One (2012), which was based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same name. Despite scathing reviews from critics, the film became a tremendous box office triumph.

2013-2015

At Any Price, a drama starring Efron, premiered at the 2012 Venice International Film Festival. He also starred in Parkland, a historical drama that opened at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival and received mixed reviews from critics. The romantic comedy That Awkward Moment, in which Efron also served as an executive producer, was his first release of 2014. It starred Efron, Michael B. Jordan, and Miles Teller as three bachelors in New York City. Despite generally unfavorable reviews from critics, the picture was a moderate monetary success.

After that, Efron starred alongside Seth Rogen in the adult comedy Neighbors (2014). It followed a young couple, Rogen and Rose Byrne, as they attempt to raise their baby girl while living next door to the mansion of a rowdy fraternity commanded by its president, Efron. The film was a huge box office hit and earned largely positive reviews from reviewers. He only acted in one film in 2015, the somewhat popular We Are Your Friends (2015), in which he played a struggling DJ.

2016-2018

In 2016, Efron co-starred with Robert De Niro in the adult comedy Dirty Grandpa. The story revolved around a strict young man who reluctantly indulges his eccentric grandfather by bringing him on a vacation to Florida. It received generally unfavorable reviews from critics due to its filthy humor, yet it was a commercial success when it was released. He later appeared in the comedy sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising alongside Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen, and Chloe Grace Moretz. After its release in May 2016, the film was a commercial and critical triumph. It followed the same pair (Rogen and Byrne) as they teamed up with a former competitor (Efron) to take down a hard-partying sorority lead by a freshman (Moretz). Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Efron’s third 2016 comedy, premiered in July, and he co-starred alongside Adam DeVine (as siblings), as well as Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick.

In 2017, Efron appeared in Baywatch, an action comedy film based on the television series of the same name, which premiered in May. Kelly Rohrbach, Alexandra Daddario, Jon Bass, Priyanka Chopra, and Ilfenesh Hadera star alongside Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron in the film. In December of the same year, he appeared in two biographical films: The Disaster Artist, a comedy-drama directed by and starring James Franco, and The Greatest Showman, in which he played Phillip alongside Hugh Jackman. Both films received Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy.

2019 to present

In 2019, Zac co-starred opposite Matthew McConaughey in the Harmony Korine film The Beach Bum as a drug-addled libertine. In Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, he co-starred with Lily Collins as serial killer Ted Bundy’s girlfriend. It had its world premiere at Sundance in early 2019, and Netflix released it on May 3. In Warner Bros.’ 2020 Scooby-Doo animated film, he will voice Fred Jones. For the Netflix web documentary series Down to Earth with Zac Efron, Efron won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Program Host in 2021.

Upcoming projects

Efron will star in Anthony Hayes’ survival thriller Gold, which will be released in 2021. He’ll also appear in the horror film Firestarter, directed by Keith Thomas, which is a remake of the 1984 film based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. In addition, he will star alongside his brother in the survival reality series Kill the Efrons. In the series, the two were dispatched to far-flung corners of the globe in search of Quibi.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Melinda’s World	Stuart Wasser
2005	The Derby Stallion	Patrick McCardle
2007	Hairspray	Link Larkin
2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year	Troy Bolton
	Me and Orson Welles	Richard Samuels
2009	17 Again	Mike O’Donnell
2010	Charlie St. Cloud	Charlie St. Cloud
2011	New Year’s Eve	Paul
2012	At Any Price	Dean Whipple
	Liberal Arts	Nat
	The Lorax	Ted Wiggins (voice)
	The Lucky One	Logan Thibault
	The Paperboy	Jack Jansen
2013	Parkland	Dr. Charles James “Jim” Carrico
2014	Neighbors	Teddy Sanders
	That Awkward Moment	Jason	Also executive producer
2015	We Are Your Friends	Cole Carter
2016	Dirty Grandpa	Jason Kelly
	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Dave Stangle
	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Teddy Sanders
2017	Baywatch	Matt Brody
	The Disaster Artist	Dan Janjigian / Chris-R
	The Greatest Showman	Phillip Carlyle
2019	The Beach Bum	Flicker
	Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile	Ted Bundy	Also executive producer
2020	Scoob!	Fred Jones (voice)
2021	Save Ralph	Bobby (voice)	Short film
2022	Gold	Virgil
	Firestarter	Andy McGee	Post-production
	The Greatest Beer Run Ever	John “Chickie” Donohue	Post-production