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).
Vanessa Hudgens Returns For ‘Bad Boys 4’ With Will Smith & Martin Lawrence; Filming To Begin In Coming Months
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Hudgens is set to reprise her role as weapons expert Kelly in Bad Boys 4 with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence revealed earlier this year that they’re reteaming for a fourth Bad Boys movie, which is in pre-production at Sony Pictures with Bad Boys for Life‘s director Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah returning to helm from a script by Chris Bremner.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but we hear the film will start filming within the next few months. Before Covid shut everything down in March 2020, the third movie, Bad Boys for Life, made more than $426 million at the worldwide box office; with a domestic four-day opening of $73M, the pic notched the second-best MLK weekend ever.
Altogether, the Bad Boys franchise counts $840.7M at the global box office. Jerry Bruckheimer, Smith for Westbrook, Doug Belgrad and Chad Oman are back producing; Martin Lawrence, James Lassiter, Mike Stenson, Barry Waldman and Jon Mone are executive producers.
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