- Name
- Zac Efron
- Date of Birth
- October 18, 1987
- Birth Place
- San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Z
ac Efron is the king of the tweens! They fell in love with the floppy-haired cutie as singing jock Troy Bolton in the Disney Channel megahit
High School Musical
. After its premiere in January 2006, the TV movie became the most-watched program in Disney's history.
In the summer of 2007, Efron
laced up
his b-ball sneakers again for
HSM 2
with
his costar
and
first love
Vanessa Hudgens
. He also
jumped to the big-screen
in the star-studded remake of
Hairspray
and
landed a sexy cover
of
Rolling Stone
, which proclaimed him, "The New American Heartthrob."
After hitting the box office with the final
HSM
flick, Efron ditched Disney, headlining
17 Again
,
Me and Orson Welles
and 2010's
Charlie St. Cloud
.