Professional
Life: After
appearing
in
all
three High
School
Musical
films,
Hudgens
went
on
to
star
in films
such
as
Bandslam,
Beastly,
Sucker
Punch,
Spring
Breakers, Machete
Kills,
Second
Act
and
Bad
Boys
for
Life.
“High
School
Musical
was
a
fantastic
journey,
but
it
completely
derailed
me
from
where
I
originally
saw
my
career
going,”
Hudgens
told
The
Guardian in
an
August
2018
interview. “I
always
wanted
to
be
the
indie
girl;
I
always
wanted
to
be
in
the
movies
where
I’m
playing
a
drug
addict
or
a
stripper
or
a
prostitute.
That
was
my
goal
since
I
was
like,
11.”
In
2015,
Hudgens
made
her
Broadway
debut
in
a
revival
of
the
musical Gigi.
The
following
year,
she
returned
to
her
musical
roots
and
played
Rizzo
in
Fox’s
Grease
Live! Then,
in
2019,
she
joined Fox’s
live
staging
of
Rent.
Plus,
she starred
in
Lin-Manuel
Miranda‘s
movie
adaptation
of
Rent
creator
Jonathan
Larson‘s
autobiographical musical tick,
tick…BOOM!.
Personal
Life: In
2011,
a
year
after
Hudgens
and
Zac
Efron split,
she
began
dating
actor Austin
Butler.
The
couple
split
in
early
2020.
In
December
2023,
she
married
MLB
star
Cole
Tucker
after
three
years
of
dating.
The
pair
are
now
expecting
their
first
child.
Celebrity Fails
