She is now dating MLB's Cole Tucker.įred Hayes/The Disney Channel/Kobal/Shutterstock, Phillip Faraone/Getty Images Ashley Tisdale (Sharpay Evans) In 2011, a year after Hudgens and Zac Efron split, she began dating actor Austin Butler. Personal Life: Hudgens remains good friends with High School Musical co-star Ashley Tisdale. She returned for Fox's live staging of Rent in 2019 and starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda's movie adaptation of Rent creator Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical tick, tick.BOOM!. It was released on Netflix in November 2021. 'Tonight, I do the show in his honor,' she tweeted, before giving one of the best performances of her career. In 2016, she returned to her musical roots and played Rizzo in Fox's Grease Live! Hours before the live production, she revealed that her father, Greg Hudgens, had died at age 65 after battling stage 4 cancer.

In 2015, Hudgens made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Gigi. 'I always wanted to be the indie girl I always wanted to be in the movies where I'm playing a drug addict or a stripper or a prostitute. ' High School Musical was a fantastic journey, but it completely derailed me from where I originally saw my career going,' Hudgens told The Guardian in an August 2018 interview. Professional Life: After appearing in all three High School Musical films, Hudgens went on to star in films such as Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Spring Breakers, Machete Kills, Second Act and Bad Boys for Life. They split after less than a year.įred Hayes/The Disney Channel/Kobal/Shutterstock, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Vanessa Hudgens (Gabriella Montez) Personal Life: Efron dated Vanessa Hudgens, who played his onscreen love interest Gabriella Montez, for about four years before they split in 2010. Efron later dated model Sam Miro between 20. In 2020, he began dating model Vanessa Valladares while living in Australia. After playing the infamous Ted Bundy in the 2019 Netflix film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, he signed on for an adventure docus-series entitled Killing Zac Efron, that, ironically, actually almost killed him. In 2017, he returned to his musical roots (he also sang in the 2007 film Hairspray) with a role in The Greatest Showman.

Cloud, That Awkward Moment, Neighbors and its sequel, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and the big screen adaptation of Baywatch, where he got to showcase his now-notoriously hot physique alongside the even more jacked Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. Professional Life: The High School Musical films made Efron an official Hollywood superstar and he landed roles in movies such as 17 Again, Charlie St. Fred Hayes/The Disney Channel/Kobal/Shutterstock, Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Zac Efron (Troy Bolton)

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