Acting

Zac Efron

Born 1987-10-18 · San Luis Obispo, California, USA

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).

Credits

Newest first

Boundless: The Man Who Became Human
Executive Producer
2026
The Studio
as Zac Efron
2025
A Family Affair
as Chris Cole
2024
Ricky Stanicky
as Dean
2024
The Iron Claw
as Kevin Von Erich
2023
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
as John 'Chickie' Donohue
2022
Firestarter
as Andy McGee
2022
Gold
as Virgil
2022
Down to Earth with Zac Efron
as Self
2020
Down to Earth with Zac Efron
Executive Producer
2020
Scoob!
as Fred Jones (voice)
2020
Dude Perfect: Backstage Pass
as Himself
2020
The Great Global Cleanup
as Self
2020
The Great Global Cleanup
Executive Producer
2020
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Human Discoveries
as Gary (voice)
2019
Human Discoveries
Executive Producer
2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
as Ted Bundy
2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Executive Producer
2019
The Beach Bum
as Flicker
2019
The Greatest Showman
as Phillip Carlyle
2017
Baywatch
as Matt Brody
2017
The Disaster Artist
as Dan / 'Chris-R'
2017
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
as Dave Stangle
2016
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
as Teddy Sanders
2016
Dirty Grandpa
as Jason Kelly
2016
We Are Your Friends
as Cole
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
21 Years: Richard Linklater
as Self - Actor
2014
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
as Self
2014
Neighbors
as Teddy Sanders
2014
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
as Superboy / Brainiac (voice)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
That Awkward Moment
as Jason
2014
That Awkward Moment
Executive Producer
2014
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2014
Parkland
as Jim Carrico
2013
Catfish: The TV Show
as Self
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)
2012
New Year's Eve
as Paul
2011
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as Anakin Skywalker (voice)
2010
Conan
as Self
2010
Charlie St. Cloud
as Charlie St. Cloud
2010
Zac Efron's Pool Party
as Self
2009
17 Again
as Mike O'Donnell
2009
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
2008
You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"
as Self
2007
High School Musical 2
as Troy Bolton
2007
Hairspray
as Link Larkin
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
El hormiguero
as Self - Guest
2006
High School Musical: Remix
as Troy Bolton
2006
The Replacements
as Davey Hunkerhoff
2006
Disney Channel Games
as Self
2006
Heist
as Pizza Delivery Guy
2006
High School Musical Dance-Along
as Self
2006
High School Musical
as Troy Bolton
2006
The Derby Stallion
as Patrick McCardle
2005
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
as Trevor
2005
Robot Chicken
as Billy Joel, Mechanic (voice)
2005
Robot Chicken
as Anakin Skywalker, Red Power Ranger, God (voice)
2005
Robot Chicken
as Harry Potter, Horrg, Bowling Pin (voice)
2005
Miracle Run
as Steven Morgan
2004
Entourage
as Zac Efron
2004
Summerland
as Cameron Bale
2004
NCIS
as Daniel Austin
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
Punk'd
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
CSI: Miami
as Seth Dawson
2002
Firefly
as Young Simon
2002