Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens: Biography in Details

Who is Vanessa Hudgens?

Vanessa Hudgens is an American actress and singer. She has played in various films and series. Vanessa Hudgens has been in huge success in her role in the High School Musical series.

Which helped her to make a household name. She is also famous for her movies including Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Spring Breakers, and Machete Kills.

Vanessa Hudgens: Age, Parents, Siblings, Nationality, Ethnicity

Vanessa Hudgens was born on December 14, 1988, in Salinas, California, USA. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is Irish-Filipino.

Her mother Gina was a job holder and her father Gregory Hudgens was a firefighter. Her sister Stella Hudgens is also an actress. Her father is Irish and her mother is Filipino.

Vanessa belongs to a family of musicians as her grandparents were great musicians. Vanessa was grown up in a Roman Catholic family.

In which school did Vanessa Hudgens attend?

Vanessa Hudgens attended Orange County High School of the Arts. She had been homeschooled from grade eleven and had passed his graduation.

She was interested in studying business when she went to college and her hobby is photography.

Vanessa Hudgens: Professional Life and Career

Vanessa started singing at the age of eight in local plays like Carousel, That Wizard of Oz, The Music Man, The King, and I and Cinderella.

After gaining enough experience, she had her TV debut on the CBS sitcom “Still Standing” as a guest appearance. She made her film debut in 2003 in “Thirteen” and later on “Thunderbirds.”

In 2005, she got the role in the movie High School Musical by Disney Channel which made her very famous. Vanessa released her debut album “V” with Hollywood Records in 2006.

Next year the sequel of High School Musical was released and it was a huge success and won the Nickelodeon Australian Kid’s Choice Awards in the So Hot Right Now category.

Later Vanessa left Hollywood Records after the failure of her second album “Identified” and took a break from her singing career.

Another sequel to “High School Musical”, High School Musical 3” was released in 2008 and gained huge success, and debuted at #1 in the US.

Her movie “Bandslam” was very praised by critics but it received mediocre ratings. She also learned to play guitar for the movie character.

In 2011, her movie Beastly and Sucker Punch was released but it couldn’t grab lots of positive acclaim. Vanessa also worked with Dwayne Johnson and Josh Hutcherson in the movie “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island”.

Vanessa Hudgens also shared the screen with Selena Gomez, James Franco, and Ashley Benson in the movie “Spring Breakers”.

In 2013, she acted in movies including “The Frozen Ground”, “’Machete Kills” and “Gimme Shelter”. Hudgens took on the title role in the new production Gigi later transferred to Broadway.

Vanessa Hudgens was cast in a pilot for a TV comedy series titled Powerless based on DC Comics characters. Vanessa also won the Teen Choice Awards in the ‘Choice Music: Breakout Artist – Female’ category in 2006 and the ShoWest ”Female Star Of Tomorrow” Award in 2010.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size

Vanessa Hudgens has a height of 5 feet 1 inch. Her body weighs 50kg.

She has black hair and dark brown eyes. Furthermore, her body measurements are 33-24-34 inches.

Her dress size is 2(US), bra size is 32A, and shoe size is 7(US).

Vanessa Hudgens: Salary and Net Worth

As per the sources, her total net worth is $16 million as of 2022, but her salary is not revealed yet.

Is Vanessa Hudgens involved in any rumors and controversies?

In 2007, Brian Schall sued her for an alleged ‘breach of contract’. He claimed Vanessa owes her $150,000. She retorted by saying that at the time of signing the contract (i.e. October 2005), she was still a minor and couldn’t possibly do so.

In the same year, many pictures of Vanessa were released on the internet which led her to a huge controversy.

In many of the photos she was posing in Lingerie and in a few of them, she was even seen naked. The same sequence was repeated in 2009 with her naked photos on the internet.

In 2016 Vanessa paid $1,000 in restitution for damage to U.S. Forest Service property by carving the initials of her and Butler’s names within a heart on a rock in the Coconino National Forest and displaying it on her personal Instagram feed.

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

Vanessa Hudgens is currently active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

She has around 38.7 million followers on Instagram, around 6.9 million followers on Twitter, and more than 17.2 million followers on Facebook.

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