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Zac Efron

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Biography

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).

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Disaster Artist

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Lorax

As Ted Wiggins (voice)

The Greatest Showman

As Phillip Carlyle

The Iron Claw

As Kevin Von Erich

Scoob!

As Fred Jones (voice)

17 Again

As Mike O'Donnell

Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special

As Self (archive footage)

Dirty Grandpa

As Jason Kelly

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Art of the Fall

From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...

8 films

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