Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer. After making her feature film debut in Thirteen (2003), Hudgens rose to fame portraying Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008), which brought her significant mainstream success.
The success of the first film led to Hudgens' acquiring a recording contract with Hollywood Records, with whom she released two studio albums, V (2006) and Identified (2008).
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens reunite with High School Musical cast for Disney sing-along
metro.co.ukZac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens are among the original High School Musical cast members who are reuniting for a special Disney sing-along this week.
The news was confirmed by the original director of the movies, Kenny Ortega, who revealed the cast would be getting back together on the request of Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Kenny told Deadline: ‘I wanted to find something I can do to participate and it was so great to be given the call and invited by ABC to join. ‘It gave me a purpose to get up every morning.
I feel really good that we have an opportunity to do something like this — it’s good medicine.’ Despite the last movie, High School Musical 3: Senior Year premiering over a decade ago, Kenny managed to enlist the main cast to take part once
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