Zac Efron

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Zac Efron (2017)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Breaking Free (with Vanessa Hudgens )
  DE 46 10/06/2006 (10 weeks)
  UK 9 
silver
silver
09/30/2006 (21 weeks)
  US 4th 02/04/2006 (11 weeks)
Start of Something New (with Vanessa Hudgens)
  UK 90 13/01/2007 (1 week)
  US 28 02/11/2006 (4 weeks)
We're All in This Together (with cast of High School Musical )
  US 34 02/11/2006 (4 weeks)
Stick to the Status Quo (with the cast of High School Musical)
  US 43 02/11/2006 (2 weeks)
What time is it? (with the cast of High School Musical 2 )
  US 6th 08/04/2007 (8 weeks)
You Can't Stop the Beat (with the cast of Hairspray )
  UK 71 
silver
silver
09/29/2007 (4 weeks)
  US 88 08/04/2007 (2 weeks)
Ladies' Choice
  UK 96 08/04/2007 (1 week)
You Are the Music in Me (with Vanessa Hudgens)
  DE 75 10/26/2007 (5 weeks)
  CH 75 10/28/2007 (1 week)
  UK 98 09/29/2007 (1 week)
  US 31 09/01/2007 (4 weeks)
Gotta Go My Own Way (with Vanessa Hudgens)
  DE 67 02/01/2008 (5 weeks)
  CH 59 10/28/2007 (1 week)
  UK 40 10/06/2007 (3 weeks)
  US 34 09/01/2007 (3 weeks)
Bet on It
  CH 89 10/28/2007 (1 week)
  US 46 09/01/2007 (3 weeks)
Everyday (with Vanessa Hudgens & the cast of High School Musical 2)
  US 65 09/01/2007 (2 weeks)
All for One (with the cast of High School Musical 2)
  US 92 09/01/2007 (2 weeks)
Can I Have This Dance (with Vanessa Hudgens)
  UK 81 11/08/2008 (1 week)
  US 98 11/08/2008 (2 weeks)
Right Here, Right Now (with Vanessa Hudgens)
  DE 92 03/20/2009 (1 week)
Rewrite the Stars (with Zendaya )
  DE 89 01/26/2018 (3 weeks)
  AT 52 01/26/2018 (5 weeks)
  CH 96 04/02/2018 (1 week)
  UK 16 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
11/01/2018 (10 weeks)
  US 70 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
01/13/2018 (7 weeks)
The Greatest Show (with Hugh Jackman , Keala Settle & Zendaya)
  UK 20th 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
11/01/2018 (34 weeks)
  US 88 
gold
gold
01/13/2018 (4 weeks)
The Other Side (with Hugh Jackman)
  UK 48 
platinum
platinum
07/05/2018 (11 weeks)

Zachary "Zac" David Alexander Efron [ sæk.ˈæfˑ.ɹɔn ] (born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo , California ) is an American actor and singer .

Life

Childhood, youth and first appearances

Zac Efron grew up as the son of a middle-class Jewish family in San Luis Obispo and later moved to Arroyo Grande . His father, David Efron, is an engineer and his mother, Starla Baskett, is a secretary . He has a younger brother.

At the age of eleven, Efron's talent for singing was discovered and promoted, so that he was soon on stage at a performance of Peter Pan and in 1999 made 90 appearances with the classic musical Gypsy . Subsequently, he became a member of an improvisational theater that allegedly even won the world championships during its membership . This was followed by other stage appearances in musicals , such as Der kleine Horrorladen and The Music Man . After almost a year of searching for new roles and several castings in Los Angeles , at the age of 15 he made a few appearances in the US television series Firefly and Emergency Room . He was originally only given a supporting role in the series Summerland Beach , which was so popular with television audiences that he was included in the main cast in the second season in 2005 . After this second season, however, the series was discontinued.

breakthrough

After roles in the US TV series CSI: Miami and NCIS in 2006 was followed by Disney - TV movie High School Musical , in which he and Vanessa Hudgens plays the main role. He and Hudgens present seven songs in this film, with Efron only singing a few lines and mainly Drew Seeley's singing voice . According to Efron, this was due to the fact that he would have liked to sing himself, but at the time of his engagement the soundtrack had already been set and it was written for a tenor . Efron had it not have been possible in his baritone - tone of voice to sing and had to be so gedoubelt vocally. He can only be heard in a few lines at the beginning of the songs Start of Something New and Breaking Free . This only became known after the film songs were published under his name in February 2006 and the name of Drew Seeley was only added to the chart lists afterwards . The songs all conquered the charts, so that Efron was represented on February 11, 2006 with six songs on the Billboard Hot 100 .

Efron compared the film to Grease (1978) several times and said he was pleased to be able to evoke the same "warm feeling" in high school musical viewers as he did with this classic.

Start of career

After High School Musical , Efron made a series pilot with Jennifer Coolidge called If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now . Between September and December 2006 Efron was in Toronto for the musical film Hairspray - a remake of the musical of the same name - in the role of Link Larkin in front of the camera, together with Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta . Efron described his character as the "role of his life," for which he claims to have gained 15  pounds .

Efron in 2007

After he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in early August 2007 and said in an interview with the magazine that he had to "hopefully not have to shoot too many sequels " of High School Musical , the US Disney Channel shone on August 17th 2007 High School Musical 2 and reached an audience of 17.24 million, which was a record for US cable television . The film was shot from February to April 2007; Efron had sung all the vocal passages himself this time.

Efron then worked on the comedy film 17 Again - Back to High School , a film in which he plays a 37-year-old man who wakes up one morning as a teenager. The project is the second collaboration between Efron and Adam Shankman , the director of Hairspray , who worked here as a producer . The film opened in German cinemas on May 14, 2009.
Finally, in May 2008, Efron began filming High School Musical 3: Senior Year , which opened in theaters the following October - in contrast to the previous films, which were shown directly on television.
Directed by Burr Steers , with whom he has already worked on 17 Again , he was seen in German cinemas from October 7, 2010 in the literary film How Through a Miracle . He played there alongside Kim Basinger .

In 2008, Efron was one of the top-earning young actors in Hollywood , according to Forbes Magazine . Between June 2007 and June 2008 he received fees ranging from 15 to 22 million US dollars , ranking just behind Daniel Radcliffe , Miley Cyrus , Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and the Jonas Brothers in fifth place.

In 2009, Zac Efron appeared with Vanessa Hudgens, Beyoncé Knowles and Hugh Jackman at the 81st Academy Awards ( Oscars ), where they performed a medley of musical history, including a. played with excerpts from Mamma Mia , High School Musical , Grease and Moulin Rouge .

In 2010, Zac Efron was the laudator for the categories " Best Sound " and " Best Sound Editing " at the 82nd Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Together with Anna Kendrick he presented the award to the two-time winner Paul Ottosson for The Hurt Locker .

For the single The Other Side , he received a platinum record in Great Britain and a platinum award in the USA.

Zac Efron has allegedly already received offers for the recording of a solo album on several occasions (including from Simon Cowell ), but has always turned it down because a career as an actor means more to him than that of a singer.

Private life

Zac Efron took piano lessons from the age of 11 and also plays the clarinet . His original plan to study at the University of Southern California did not allow his film career, so he had to drop out for the time being.

Efron was in a relationship with Vanessa Hudgens , his colleague from the high school musical films; However, as it became known on December 13, 2010, the couple had separated again.

Until the end of April 2016, Zac Efron had a two-year relationship with Sami Carter-Oberstone (Sami Miro)

Filmography

Efron at the premiere of The Paperboy at the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival

The German dubbing voice of Zac Efron is Daniel Schlauch . Only in Hairspray was he spoken of by David Turba .

Series

Movies

Music videos

Awards and nominations

Awards

  • 2006: Teen Choice Award : Best Newcomer for High School Musical
  • 2006: Teen Choice Award: Best Screen Couple High School Musical (with Vanessa Hudgens )
  • 2007: Nick Kids' Choice Award : Best Male Lead Actor for High School Musical 2
  • 2007: Teen Choice Award: Hottest Male Actor
  • 2007: Hollywood Film Award: Ensemble of the Year (along with the other actors from Hairspray )
  • 2007: Young Hollywood Award: One to Watch in Hairspray
  • 2007: Blimp Awards: Most Popular Actor
  • 2008: MTV Movie Award : Best Newcomer for Hairspray
  • 2009: MTV Movie Award: Best Actor for High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  • 2009: Teen Choice Award: Best Comedy Actor for 17 Again
  • 2009: Teen Choice Award: Best Actor in Music and Dance for High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  • 2009: Teen Choice Award: Choice Rockstar Moment for 17 Again
  • 2010: Bravo Otto : Best Male TV Star
  • 2011: People's Choice Award : Favorite Movie Star under 25
  • 2017: Teen Choice Award: Best Comedy Lead Actor for Baywatch

Nominations

  • 2005: Young Artist Award : Best Actor for Miracle Run
  • 2007: Young Artist Award: Best Actor in a TV Production for High School Musical
  • 2008: Critics Choice Award: Best Song for Hairspray (2007); together with Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Elijah Kelley (with the song "Come So Far")
  • 2008: Astra Award: Best Actor for High School Musical 2
  • 2009: MTV Movie Award: Hottest Kiss High School Musical 3: Senior Year (with Vanessa Hudgens)
  • 2010: Nick Kids' Choice Award: Favorite Male Actor for 17 Again
  • 2010: MTV Movie Award: Best Actor for 17 Again
  • 2011: MTV Movie Award: Best Actor for How Through a Wonder
  • 2018: Golden Raspberry : Worst Actor for Baywatch

Web links

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE CH - UK1 UK2 US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US
  3. ↑ a b c d Zac Efron: The New American Heart Throb (3) , zefron.com ( scan of the Rolling Stone article, published on August 23, 2007)
  4. ^ A b Zac Efron: The High School Hunk , thestar.com, August 4, 2007
  5. ↑ a b c d Star Spotlight , teacher.scholastic.com
  6. ↑ Getting to Know Zac Efron , zefron.com
  7. ↑ a b c d Zac Efron: The New American Heart Throb (4) , zefron.com ( scan of the Rolling Stone article, published on August 23, 2007)
  8. ^ Zac Efron: The New American Heart Throb (1) , Rolling Stone , Aug. 9, 2007
  9. ^ A b Zac Efron: The New American Heart Throb (2) , Rolling Stone , August 9, 2007
  10. ↑ Nikki Blonsky and Zac Efron - Hair Raising Success in “Hairspray” , popentertainment.com, August 13, 2007
  11. ↑ Zac Efron: The New American Heart Throb (cover) , zefron.com ( scan of the cover of Rolling Stone issue 1033, published August 23, 2007)
  12. ↑ Grown-ups Head Back to 'School' ( Memento from January 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , Variety , August 24, 2007
  13. ^ "Seventeen": body swap with "Hairspray" star Zac Efron , moviegod.de, August 21, 2007
  14. ↑ Zac Efron: The New American Heart Throb (5) , zefron.com ( scan of the Rolling Stone article, published August 23, 2007)
  15. ^ School Ties for New Line ( Memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , Variety , February 27, 2007
  16. ↑ cf. Wesley Johnson: Hollywood's Top Earners . Press Association Newsfile, July 23, 2008, 4:38 PM BST
  17. ↑ Exclusive Interview: Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens Sing Their Praises for “High School Musical” ( Memento from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , movieweb.com, May 22, 2006
  18. ↑ Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens Spli , UsMagazine.com, accessed December 13, 2010
  19. ↑ Zac Efron: Did he break up with Sami Miro? In: gala.de. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Efron, Zac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Efron, Zachary David Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH San Luis Obispo , California , United States