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).
Everything Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler Have Said About Each Other After Their Breakup
usmagazine.comA little less conversation? Not for Austin Butler and Vanessa Hudgens, who have continued to talk about each other following their 2020 breakup.Though the Elvis star and the High School Musical actress didn’t waste time moving on — Butler has been dating Kaia Gerber since December 2021, while Us Weekly confirmed Hudgens’ engagement to Cole Tucker in January 2023 — the former pair have paid tribute to their past romance (and each other).In September 2022 — two years after Us confirmed the pair had split — the Broadway alum called her relationship with Butler “life-changing.”“The public only sees so much,” Hudgens told Nylon at the time, referring to her romances with Butler and Zac Efron. (Hudgens and Efron dated from 2006 to 2010.) “I’ve also been through two very long life-changing relationships, and no one really knows what happened except for me.
When I write my memoir, it’ll be amazing.”Included in that memoir could also be the story of how Butler was inspired to play the role of Elvis Presley, for which he won a 2023 Golden Globe.
While declining to mention Hudgens by name, the Zoey 101 alum told the tale of how a “friend” encouraged him to portray the rock ’n roll icon in a nearly word-for-word retelling of the version Hudgens revealed in 2019.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“The month before I heard that Baz [Luhrmann] was making the movie, I was going to look at Christmas lights with a friend, and there was an Elvis Christmas song on the radio and I was singing along, and my friend looked over at me and goes, ‘You’ve got to play Elvis.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s such a long shot,’” the Carrie Diaries alum revealed to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Actors Roundtable in January 2023. “A couple of weeks
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