Welcome to Hollywood Walk of Fame…ZAC EFRON!
Actor Zac Efron was honoured on Monday, December 11, at 11:30 a.m. with the 2,767th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was unveiled at 6426 Hollywood Boulevard. Efron was honored with his star in the category of Motion Pictures.
Ana Martinez, Producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame said “We are thrilled to honor actor Zac Efron who began his career as a Disney alum and has reinvented himself as a leading man by playing a wide variety of great roles. What a way to end our year of star ceremonies with this very popular and gifted actor!”
Guest speakers included Jeremy Allen White, Sean Durkin and Miles Teller.
Some of Efron’s “High School Musical” family were there, with director Kenny Ortega and producer Bill Borden in the audience. “You guys were both instrumental in giving me my start in ‘High School Musical.’ And for that, I’m just eternally, eternally grateful. You have no idea. I still think about it every day,” Efron said in a speech ahead of his star’s unveiling. He joked, “I sing the songs in the shower. Go Wildcats.”
Fans lined up and chanted his name on the street!
During his speech Zac said ” I am grateful to my fans… everywhere”
Zac was born in San Luis Obispo and began his career at the Pacific Coast Performing Arts Center and became a household name with the launch of the 2006 Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel phenomenon High School Musical. He reprised his role in High School Musical 2, which broke cable TV records garnering 17.5 million viewers then starred in the Disney Feature Film High School Musical 3: Senior Year, the third installment of the extremely successful High School Musical franchise. HSM3 set a box office record as the highest-grossing opening weekend total for a musical.
Efron stars in Sean Durkin’s upcoming film THE IRON CLAW on December 22, 2023. The movie is a chronicle of an American family, an intimate and epic portrait of the Von Erichs, a dynasty of wrestlers who made a huge impact on the sport in the 1960s but were plagued by misfortune and loss.
Zac Efron recently wrapped production on A FAMILY AFFAIR opposite Nicole Kidman and Joey King, a romantic comedy focused on a surprising romance that results in comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex and identity. The film will premiere on Netflix in 2024.
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