Vanessa Anne Hudgens was born on December 14, 1988 in Salinas, California, USA. Her Parents are Greg Hudgens and Gina Guangco. She has a younger sister, ‘Stella’.

She began doing commercials at young age. She received her first job when a friend could join and she joined instead. She even began doing some modeling and appeared on the cover of ‘San Diego magazine’.

In year 2002, Vanessa acted in an episode of the TV series ‘Still Standing’. This was followed up by another small TV appearance on an episode of Robbery Homicide Division later that year.

Vanessa played a number of musical theatrical roles including: ‘The Wizard of Oz’, ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’, ‘The King and I’, ‘Evita’, ‘Carousel’, ‘Dam Yankees’ and ‘Cinderella’.

In year 2003, Vanessa Hudgen played her big screen debut role as ‘Noel’ in the movie “Thirteen”. In year 2004, she hit the big screen again as ‘Tin-tin’ in the mildly successful sci-fi comedy/drama “Thunderbirds”. She played role in an episode of ‘Quintuplets’ in year 2005.

Her big break came in January 2006, when she appeared as ‘Gabriella Montez’ in the Disney made for TV movie “High School Musical opposite Zac Efron”. The movie did very well in the ratings for its demographics, but to everyone's delight, the music from the soundtrack has made a big splash on the U.S. charts. In fact, the single "Breaking Free" - a duo she sings with Zac Efron has reached #4 on Billboard and made history when it dropped 82 places from #86 one week earlier - the largest single jump ever!

Glamorous actress, Vanessa continues with singing and acting, and has recently appeared on an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Her first solo album V debuted at #24 on the US Billboard album chart with 34,000 copies sold during its first week.