Biography of Zac Efron
Zac Efron, whose full name is Zachary David Alexander Efron was born on 18 October 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California, the son of David, engineer in an energy industry, and Starla, former Secretary. He moved with his family to Arroyo Grande, at the age of eleven, he is persuaded by his father to pursue a career as an actor; After the first few performances in representations of her high school, he began working in a theater, The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, taking part in projects like "the little shop of horrors," "Peter Pan, or the boy who wouldn't grow up", "Gypsy" and "Mame." After starting to take singing lessons, attended Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts.
The years 2000
In 2002 gets the first parts in several tv series, including "Firefly," "The Guardian" and "ER". In 2003 says in the pilot episode of "The Big Wide World of Carl Laemke," telefilm but will never see the light. She also "Summerland," Warner Bros teen drama in which she played Cameron Bale: at first her is one of the secondary characters, but since 2004 it becomes one of the protagonists. Later, Zac Efron appears in "NCIS," "CSI: Miami" and "Zack and Cody." After being the star of "two lives marked," the Lifetime movie in which he plays the role of a sick boy with autism, and have gotten for that role a Young Artist Award nomination (best performance by a tv movie, miniseries or special by a younger actor) in the 2005 film "The Derby Stallion" works at Zac and takes part in the making of the music video for "Sick inside" , song of Hope Partlow.An explosive success
The success, however, came in 2006, when-after working for the zero series episode "If you lived here, you'd be home now," Zac Efron is chosen for the role of Troy Bolton in Disney's "High School Musical", which won an Emmy Award and allowing him to conquer, along with co-stars Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale , a Teen Choice Award as best new actor. Just Vanessa becomes, in this period, his girlfriend. Meanwhile, Zac made his debut as a voice actor, in an episode of the tv series "The Replacements: Replacements." The following year ceases to attend the University of Southern California, which had meanwhile entered, to devote himself entirely to entertainment career: appeared in an episode of "Punk'd" and took part in the filming of "Say OK", Vanessa Hudgens music video in which he impersonates the singer's boyfriend. While the magazine "People" puts it in the top one hundred most beautiful boys 2007, Efron back to cinema with "Hairspray," big-screen version of the musical: Unlike what had happened in "High School Musical", in this work he sings all the songs with your own voice, and was nominated for the Critics ' Choice Movie Awards for Best Song , best song. Presenter at the Teen Choice Award for movie of the year, Zac reads then in "High School Musical 2" and "17 again" in high school, 17-year-old who sees him play the comedy version of the character of Matthew Perry: for this role gets the awards Choice Movie Rockstar Moment "and" Choice Movie Actor: Comedy at the Teen Choice Awards. Later Zac Efron appears on the cover of "Rolling Stone" and leads to Sydney the Nickelodeon Australian Kids ' Choice Awards. In 2009 two episodes of the television series "Robot Chicken" and is at the cinema with "Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater film that sees him play alongside Christian McKay and Claire Danes, but especially with" High School Musical 3: Senior Year, "the third chapter of the saga in which modified plays Troy Bolton, which gets a Mtv Movie Award for Best Male Performance , best actor (also for Best Kiss nominee coming, best Kiss), and a Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Actor: Music/Dance (also nominated for Choice Movie Liplock coming).The years 2010
The following year, Efron ends his affair with Vanessa Hudgens; After returning to the dubbing room for tv movie by Chris McKay "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III", is the star of "follow your heart", a film based on the book "I've dreamed of you"; She also "at any price", by Ramin Bahrani (presented at the 69th Venice International Film Festival), "Liberal Arts", by Josh Radnor, and "The Paperboy", by Lee Daniels. The latter film, which sees him work alongside Nicole Kidman, allows him to participate in the Festival of Cannes. Together with Taylor Shilling, Zac Efron is also the star of "I searched your name", based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks, which gets two awards at the Teen Choice Awards, Choice Movie Actor Romance and Choice Movie Actor Drama (in the same review you see also deliver an award as Best Red Carpet Fashion Icon Male, best red carpet fashion icon male); During this period, he worked again as a voice actor, lending his voice to Ted, character from "Lorax-the guardian of the forest". After taking part in the filming of "Parkland", by Peter Landesman, in 2014 the Californian actor recites in the comedy Tom Gormican "That awkward moment" (film that won him an award at the Mtv Movie Awards for Best Performance, the best exhibition Shirtless without clothes) and-alongside Seth Rogen in "bad neighborhoods", by Nicholas Stoller.Article contributed by the team of collaborators.