Troy
Troy
Bolton is a character in the High School Musical series. He attends East High in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the star basketball player. In HSM, he and
Gabriella meet at the New Year's Eve party. He and Gabriella competed to win the
roles in East High's school musical.
In HSM 2, Troy gets a summer job at Lava Springs Country Club, owned by Sharpay
and Ryan's father. He scrimmages against the University of Albuquerque
basketball team, and competes in the club's talent show. -
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Zac
Full Name:
Zachary David Alexander Efron
Date of Birth: 18 October 1987
Bio: Courtesy of Wikipedia
Efron was born in San Luis Obispo, California and later moved to Arroyo Grande,
California. His father, David Efron, is an engineer at a power plant, and his
mother, Starla Baskett, is a former secretary who worked at the same power plant
as Efron's father. Efron had a self-described "normal childhood" in a middle
class family, and has a younger brother, Dylan. Efron is of Jewish ancestry and
was raised agnostic, having never been religious. He has said that he would
"flip out" if he got a 'B' and not an 'A' in school, and that he was a "class
clown." Efron's father encouraged him to begin acting when Efron was eleven. He
subsequently appeared in theater productions at his high school, worked in
a theater called The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, and began
taking singing lessons. Efron performed in plays such as Gypsy, Peter Pan, Or
The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Music Man. Efron
was recommended to an agent in Los Angeles by his drama teacher, Robyn Metchik
(the mother of actors Aaron Michael Metchik and Asher Metchik). He was
later signed to the Creative Artists Agency.
Personal Life:
Efron owns an apartment and has two dogs, Australian shepherds named Dreamer and
Puppy, along with a Siamese cat named Simon.He was still dating his High School
Musical series co-star, Vanessa Anne Hudgens as of September 3, 2008. On January
15, 2008, Efron was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
for an emergency appendectomy.
Zac Efron was also on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2008, as number 92 with
an estimated earning of $5.8 million from June of '07 to June of '08.
