He performed in shows such as Gypsy Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up Little Shop of Horrors and The Music Man. Efron subsequently worked in the theater The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville, and began taking singing lessons. Įfron has said that he would 'flip out' if he got a 'B' and not an 'A' in school, as well as that he was a class clown.
His paternal grandfather is Jewish, and Efron has described himself as Jewish though he was raised agnostically and did not practice religion as a child. Efron has a younger brother, Dylan, and a younger paternal half-sister, Olivia, and had, as he has described, a 'normal childhood' in a middle-class family. His father, David Efron, is an electrical engineer at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is an administrative assistant who also works at Diablo Canyon. 2.2 2009–present: Other work and mainstream successĮfron was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and later moved to Arroyo Grande, California.2.1 2002–2009: Early career and High School Musical.
