His career was discovered in High School Musical as a campus crush where he found his first showbiz love,Vanessa Hudgens, it was succeded by series of movies like "17 Again" (Mike O 'Donnell), "Charlie St.Cloud (as is), "New Year's Eve" (Paul) and now, "The Lucky One" (Logan), film adoptation of Nicolas Sparks' novel.

In "The Lucky One", he was given a mature role as a US Marine vet who took his journey searching the girl in the photo he found in the battle and fell in-love. According to the film's director Scott Hicks, Efron is certainly a fully fledged, grown-up actor. "He's a hard-working, committed actor, very committed to his craft and I just thoroughly enjoyed working with him," he said. His co-star Taylor Schilling had nothing but praise for the actor, whom she called a "goofball".

"It was a blast," she said. "We never took ourselves too seriously. The work, yes, but we were fooling around the whole time."

Undeniably, Efron really evolved. "[T]his erstwhile teenage heartthrob is reasonably credible, all things considered. His biceps are thick, his face is covered in rough stubble, and his baby blues are fixed in the thousand-yard stare of a man who has seen some terrible things" critics said.

Now, he is really ready to do no-undercurrent, sensual mischiefs and plain roles.