Actors

Zac Cudby

Zac Cudby

Zac Cudby makes his Feature Film Debut in The Railway Children Return releasing across cinemas from 15 July 2022. Zac plays the part of Ted, one of the three evacuee children. This brand new film produced by Jemma Rodgers for Studiocanal and directed by Morgan Matthews, sees the triumphant return of Jenny Agutter, reprising her role as Roberta "Bobbie" Waterbury, who is now grown up Zac was born in Nuneaton, previously lived in Leicestershire before the family relocated to south of Manchester in July 2020. Through his older sister, father and his grandmother, all being involved in Amateur dramatics, Zac found his way onto stage at school plays and nativities initially, before being cast in a television commercial for Pukka Pies in 2019. A role for a pantomime at the historically famous Century Theatre in Coalville followed in January 2020 directed by Aleyn Lester in the production of Cinderella. For his first ever live performance he took to the stage very naturally showing great character, and even read in for main parts in rehearsals if people weren't able to make it, because he had memorised the whole script! (The Century Theatre is a theatre that toured the country after the Second World War, as it was a mobile theatre, and spent a lot of the time in the North West. After all the bombings, the century theatre being successful in an area, demonstrated that there was a demand for a theatre locally to be built back. The theatre now takes up permanent residence in Coalville) Ever the team player, in March 2020, he spent time helping build the set with a team of volunteers at the Little Theatre, where his dad and grandmother were due to be treading the boards in Blue Stockings (the show only had one performance before being postponed due to Covid) Zac is learning to play the drums, he constantly makes his friends and family laugh with his wise cracks/cheeky personality, and he loves playing on his games console in his spare time. He applied for and was taken on by Spotted Talent in January 2021, and was quickly requested to self tape for a feature film in February 2021.
Zac Deane

Zac Deane

Zac Deane was born Zachary John-Deane Roesler on March 15, 1990, in Perth, Western Australia. His father, John Papiccio, at the time was an actor just breaking into the business. His mother, Tanya Roesler, was a model and gym instructor who met Zac's father right after he had moved to Perth. At a young age, Zac took an interest in his father's acting career. When he was nine, he was given a small part in his school play, 'Thor' and later as Arjun in the 'Mahabharata'. While at the Perth Rudolf Steiner School, Zac had an array of major interests: acting, billiards, soccer and many other sports. Unfortunately, his success on the sporting field did not translate to success in the classroom, as he struggled to keep up with the other students. Moving to Sydney at the age of 11, he still pursued drama and anything creative at, St. Mary's Catholic College and later St. Paul's Catholic College Manly. The transition to Sydney wasn't easy, and Zac hated school. Having left drama and acting behind, he didn't end up following it until after High School. At the age of 18, with no school holding him back, Zac decided to jump in the deep end and he's never looked back. Having recently returned from Los Angeles, Zac Deane has gone on to work extensively in Australia appearing on the American TV Series 'Dark Minds' (Investigation Discovery), 'Australian Families of Crime' (Channel 9), and most recently feature films 'The Trouble With E' (Girls Own Productions) and 'Good With Words' (Aangry Aardvark Productions) filming later this year.
Zac Efron

Zac Efron

Zachary David Alexander Efron was born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California, to Starla Baskett, a secretary, and David Efron, an electrical engineer. He has a younger brother, Dylan. The surname "Efron", which is Hebrew and a Biblical place name, comes from Zac's Polish Jewish paternal grandfather. Zac was raised in Arroyo Grande, CA. He took his first step toward acting at the age of eleven, after his parents noticed his singing ability. Singing and acting lessons soon led to an appearance in a production of "Gypsy" that ran 90 performances, and he was hooked. After appearing on-stage in "Peter Pan", "Auntie Mame", "Little Shop of Horrors" and "The Music Man", guest parts quickly followed on television series, including Firefly (2002), ER (1994), CSI: Miami (2002), NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003), and The Guardian (2001). After guest-starring in several episodes of Summerland (2004), Zac joined the regular cast as girl-crazy Cameron Bale. He also starred in several pilots, such as The Big Wide World of Carl Laemke (2003) and Triple Play (2004), and played an autistic child in the television film Miracle Run (2004), alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Aidan Quinn. He graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in June 2006. Efron came to fame for starring in the Disney Channel original film High School Musical (2006), for which he won the Teen Choice Award for Breakout Star. He returned to the role of Troy Bolton in High School Musical 2 (2007), which broke cable TV records with 17.5 million viewers. He had the lead roles in the fantasy romance Charlie St. Cloud (2010) and the comedy 17 Again (2009), both from director Burr Steers, and as the lovable Link Larkin in 2007's smash hit musical Hairspray (2007), directed by Adam Shankman. As part of the all-star cast, he shared a Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble and the 2007 Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year, and was honored with a Screen Actors Guild Award® nomination for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast. In addition, he won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance. Efron then starred in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles (2008), an adaptation of the novel by Robert Kaplow, which premiered to rave reviews at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. That same year, he led Kenny Ortega's High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), which set a box office record for the highest grossing opening weekend for a musical. In 2012, Efron took the lead in The Lucky One (2012), a film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel, playing a marine who returns to North Carolina after serving in Iraq in search for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war. He also lent his voice to the animated feature Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012), and co-starred in Lee Daniels' thriller The Paperboy (2012), alongside Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey and Scott Glenn, as well as Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts (2012), which premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. Another indie film he co-starred in, At Any Price (2012), was released in 2013. Most recently, Zac starred with Seth Rogen in the hit comedy film Neighbors (2014), headlined the 2015 drama We Are Your Friends (2015), carried three 2016 comedies, Dirty Grandpa (2016), Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016), and starred opposite Hugh Jackman and Zendaya in the musical drama The Greatest Showman (2017), about showman P. T. Barnum. The latter title was a sleeper hit in the winter of 2017, becoming Zac's highest-grossing live action film in the U.S. Zac's 2019 roles include a supporting part in Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum (2019), and playing serial killer Ted Bundy in Joe Berlinger's biographical drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019). Efron's favorite sports include golf, skiing, rock climbing, and snowboarding. He added surfing after spending days on the beach for "Summerland." He played the piano at home. He has also fixed up two cars in his spare time, a Delorean and '65 Mustang convertible, both treasured hand-me-downs from his even-more-treasured grandfather.