Vanessa Anne Hudgens by Ananya Chaudhary 7C

As one of the more popular tween stars, singer-actress Vanessa Anne Hudgens rose rapidly to stardom under the name Gabriella Montez due to her leading role in the famous Disney trilogy – High School Musical. Songs from High School Musical charted worldwide with the song Breaking Free as one of the Top 10 in the year 2006. This led to her releasing her debut album “V” on September 26^th 2006. Her second album “Identified” was released on July 1^st 2008 in the US.

 EARLY LIFE AND FAMILY-:
Her early life in a brief and quick flashback to her past shows:  Born on December 14^th 1988 to Gina Guangco and Greg Hudgens in Salinas, California, USA Vanessa Anne Hudgens has a younger sister Stella Hudgens. As many already know she was home schooled after 7^th grade and it is quite ironic as she was asked to play the role of a girl in high school but her only comment is “I know it is silly but I always wanted to be a prom queen and that was the one thing I missed.” Finally moving to Los Angeles with her family, Vanessa wonderfully did not find any difficulties to land more deals for other commercials afterwards, even quickly made her way to shift into show business through an appearance in CBS' sitcom "Still Standing" in 2002. Within one year, she had already encountered her film debut in "Thirteen" (2003), following it with a series of acting stints either for small or big screen such as culminating in Disney Channel's original movie "High School Musical." Premiered in January 2006, the movie turned out to be a big success, propelling its teen cast into instant stardom. Already a regular guest on the Disney comedy series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, it was no surprise that she was picked to star opposite Zac Efron in the made-for-TV romance High School Musical (also starring Ashley Tisdale). The movie was a hit and the soundtrack reached the top of Billboard's charts, leading to a record deal for Hudgens. She also starred in High School Musical sequels in 2007 and 2008. Her success in the musicals led to a singing career, and her debut album, 2006's V produced the hit single "Come Back to Me." Her second album, Identified, was released in 2008, and in 2011 she was back on the big screen in the feature film Sucker Punch.

 

 

 

 THE FIRST BREAKTHROUGH-:

The superb outcome of "High School Musical" soundtrack subsequently gave a big effect to Vanessa, who had contributed her voice for several tracks in the CD, particularly in smash hit single "Breaking Free." Not only receiving a great portion of attention from music listeners, she also delightfully found herself signing a recording contract with Hollywood Records, a label owned by Disney, shortly thereafter. The lavish deal was then materialized in debut album "V" which came out on September 26, 2006 in U.S. It did well enough, reaching the 24th rank on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week while spawning two hits songs namely "Come Back to Me" and "When There Was Me and You." She consequently became a teen idol, receiving a nod for Choice Breakout Singer Female at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards. 
 

THE FOLLOW THROUGH-:

In January 2008 it was announced that she will star in big screen comedy "Rock On” alongside "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow and that her new album was in line. The sophomore set was titled "Identified" and was outed on July 1, 2008 with "Sneakernight" as the first single. Meanwhile, she kept her schedule packed with her reprising act as Gabriella Montez in the "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" which due to its popularity was brought to the big screen. The film was slated to hit the cinema on October 28, 2008. 

After that she has focused more on her acting career. Now after acting in a couple more movies – her latest one being “Spring Breakers” her next one “Kitchen Sink” will come out in 2015.

She was given the opportunity to audition for High School Musical and she sang “Angels” by Robbie Williams. She was given the leading role, starring alongside Zac Effron. This started the hit series and was followed by two more movies.

 

FAME AND FUN-:

Let’s take a step in to her life and see her long Walk of Fame. After seeing the first movie as such a large hit they decided to come out with another movie. Although all three were a huge hit, High School Musical 3 was the only one to be released in the theatre.

AWARD NAME	YEAR RECEIVED	NOMINATED/WON
Imagen foundation awards	2006	Nominated
Teen choice awards	2006	won
Young artist award	2007	Nominated
MTV Movie award	2009	Nominated
Teen choice awards	2009	nominated
Alliance of women journalist	2013	Won

 

 

With her enormous list of movies, many which were not too well known and some which were very well known she has done a lot and must be known to the world as who she is and not as Gabriella or Kim or any other character she has acted as. None but herself.