Zac Efron was born on October 18, 1987 in San Luis, California.
Zac Efron shot to fame in the hit Disney Channel movie High School Musical in 2006 as Troy Bolton. Now at the age of twenty Zac has become the biggest teen idol winning the hearts of young girls everywhere.
As a child Efron was encouraged to take up acting by his father and began appearing in productions at school.
After graduating from the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, the young actor began his career with small parts in a number of television series including ER, The Guardian and Firefly before becoming a cast member on Summerland.
However it was his role as Troy Bolton in High School Musical that has propelled Efron to world wide fame.
Popular basketball team captain Troy and smart, stunning academic Gabriella. Both shock the members of the social cliques to which they belong when they each decide to audition for the high school’s musical. By proving themselves to be brilliant performers, can these two teens lead their peers towards more open-minded thinking and acceptance of one another?
The film became the Disney Channel’s most successful, at the time, with 7.7 million viewers. The soundtrack which accompanied the film was the biggest selling album in America in 2006.
In 2007, Efron returned to the role of Troy Bolton for High School Musical 2 with the Disney Channel. The premier brought 17.3 million viewers making it the highest rated basic cable broadcast in U.S. History.
The young star has a busy twelve months ahead of his as he stars in 17 Again this summer alongside Leslie Mann and Matthew Perry.
A “silly” boy at school
Once Zac’s Spanish teacher gave him a week to write an essay about himself. Zac wrote in the essay that he was raised by wolves and brought to earth by a spaceship. His teacher got really angry and kept him after school.
Zac once accidentally cut off one his eyebrows in fifth grade while he was working with scissors. He then cut the other one to make them match. His classmates laughed at him a lot.
Zac played in both basketball and baseball leagues at school. However, he was bad at both.
New role for Zac?
Orlando Bloom and Zac Efron are battling it out for the lead role in the new Disney action film.
The heartthrobs are both eager to play the Persian prince in the adaptation of the video game Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time.
Pirates Of The Caribbean star Orlando, 31, and High School Musical actor Zac, 20, are both hoping to impress director Jerry Bruckheimer.
The movie begins filming later this year for release in 2009.
Efron saved Perry from stampeding fans
Former Friends star Matthew Perry was all thanks for his 17 Again co-star Zac Efron for unknowingly saving him from stampeding female fans.
Perry was asked to sign his autograph on their most intimate parts, but he was spared the embarrassment when the 20-year-old Efron walked by.
He said, the minute they saw Zac, all those lovely girls in front of me vanished as they ran off screaming over to him.
“Good luck to Zac—I don’t think I could handle all that adulation at my age.”
Quotes:
I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm .
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