Age: 38
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Zachary David Alexander Efron (born October 18, 1987) is a European-American actor. Efron began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence as a teen idol for his leading role as Troy Bolton in the High School Musical trilogy (2006–2008). During this time, he also starred in the musical film Hairspray (2007) and the comedy film 17 Again (2009), the former of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Efron had starring roles in the films New Year's Eve (2011), The Lucky One (2012), The Paperboy (2012), Neighbors (2014), Dirty Grandpa (2016), Baywatch (2017), and The Greatest Showman (2017). He played Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) and Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw (2023). In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for hosting the Netflix travel show Down to Earth with Zac Efron (2020–2022).
A fading silent film star descends into delusion and obsession in 1950s Hollywood. Norma Desmond, a reclusive former actress clinging to her vanished glory, ensnares an ambitious young screenwriter into her decaying mansion on Sunset Boulevard. As he becomes her kept man and script doctor, he discovers her twisted fantasy: a comeback vehicle that will restore her to stardom. Trapped between her volatile moods, her devoted butler's sinister loyalty, and his own moral compromise, the writer watches helplessly as Norma's grip on reality fractures. Dark comedy mingles with tragedy as ambition, manipulation, and madness collide in Hollywood's glittering underbelly. The story explores the corrosive price of fame and the dangerous allure of reinvention, building toward a shocking, inevitable reckoning.
