He began his career by appearing as a guest on television programs during the 2000s, and since then has appeared in films where he plays comic, dramatic and musical roles. He is known for his portrayal of student Troy Bolton in Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, repeated role in High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year. He has also appeared in over ten films, including titles like Hairspray, 17 Again, Me and Orson Welles, and Charlie St. Cloud include The Lucky One.
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. Efron has a younger brother , Dylan, and had a "normal childhood " in a middle class family . It is an agnostic , has never been religious . His surname, " Efron " , means "lark " in Hebrew (his paternal grandfather was Jewish ).
Efron has said that " go crazy " yes obtained a "B " and not an "A" in school, and has also described himself as the class clown . Efron 's father encouraged him to begin acting when Efron was 11. Then appeared in theater productions at his high 9 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 Would not Grow Up , Little Shop of Horrors , and The Music Man I recommended to an agent in Los Angeles by his drama teacher , Robun Metchik (the mother of actors Aaron Michael Metchik and Asher Metchik ) . Efron was later signed to the Creative Artists Agency .
