FrameThrower · Actors · Zac Efron
Zac Efron
9 films · 908 frames · top-billed in 7 · 2009–2024
Born 18 October 1987 · San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Zachary David Alexander Efron is an 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).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 908 frames · top-billed in 7 · 2009–2024
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2023
- MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance2009
How their films are shot
Measured across 908 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Zac takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Zac takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Ricky Stanicky
2024 · Dean
The Iron Claw
2023 · Kevin Von Erich
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 · Ted Bundy
The Greatest Showman
2017 · Phillip Carlyle
We Are Your Friends
2015 · Cole
The Lorax
2012 · Ted Wiggins (voice)
17 Again
2009 · Mike O'Donnell
The Beach Bum
2019 · Flicker
The Disaster Artist
2017 · Dan / 'Chris-R'
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 908 frames from Zac Efron's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.