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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).
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2025 Judgment Day
2025 Night Business as Johnny Timothy
2024 A Family Affair as Chris Cole
2024 NCISverse: The First 1,000 as Self
2024 Ricky Stanicky as Dean
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 Scoob! as Fred Jones (voice)
2020 Dude Perfect: Backstage Pass as Himself
2020 The Great Global Cleanup as Self Executive Producer
2020 The Disney Family Singalong as Self
2019 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Ted Bundy Executive Producer
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
2014 21 Years: Richard Linklater as Self - Actor
2014 Neighbors as Teddy Sanders
2014 Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise as Superboy / Brainiac (voice)
2014 That Awkward Moment as Jason Executive Producer
2013 Parkland as Jim Carrico
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 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
2006 High School Musical: Remix as Troy Bolton
2006 If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now as Cody
2006 High School Musical as Troy Bolton
2005 The Derby Stallion as Patrick McCardle
2004 Miracle Run as Steven Morgan
2003 The Big Wide World of Carl Laemke as Pete Laemke
2003 Melinda's World as Stuart Wasser