Lucas Grabeel

Lucas Stephen Grabeel is an American actor, voice actor, singer, dancer, songwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for his role as Ryan Evans in the Disney Channel Original Movies High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year. His other Disney roles include Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of Halloweentown - Halloweentown High and Return to Halloweentown. He also played the character of Lester McKinley in the movie Alice, which is based off the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In addition, he starred in the Freeform series Switched at Birth. He also provided the voice of Jiku in the Disney Channel/Disney Jr. series Elena of Avalor and appeared in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Biography[]

Grabeel was born to Stephen and Jean Grabeel. In 2003, Grabeel moved to Los Angeles with his friend, Michael Brown, who is a movie editor. He currently lives near Michael in Los Angeles. His older sister, Autumn recently moved in with him in Los Angeles.

He has made television guest appearances in TV series, such as Boston Legal, Smallville, and 'Til Death. He also had a recurring role on Veronica Mars. He participated in the first ever Disney Channel Games on the green team with team captain Ashley Tisdale, Mitchel Musso, Kyle Massey, Miley Cyrus, and Emily Osment. Grabeel was spotted at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards and the 58th Creative Arts Emmy Awards along with High School Musical co-stars Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, and Vanessa Hudgens. He sang "We're All in This Together", a High School Musical number, at the 2006 Miss Teen USA. Some videos can be found on YouTube from Grabeel's High School Days, Kickapoo High School, Springfield, and current videos of 2006. "Labeled: The Freshman", "Duct Tape", "Soaptastic", some home videos to promote themed days during Spirit week, Tribute Salute song to his fans and a video of getting his hair shaved off.

Filmography[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Halloweentown High	Ethan Dalloway
2006	High School Musical	Ryan Evans
2006	Return to Halloweentown	Ethan Dalloway	Was originally entitled Halloweentown IV: Witch U.
2007	High School Musical 2	Ryan Evans
2008	College Road Trip	Scooter
2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year	Ryan Evans
2011	Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure	Ryan Evans	Cameo
2011	Special Agent Oso	Uncle Eric	"Snapfingers"
2014	Sheriff Callie's Wild West	Deputy Peck	Voice over, series regular
2014	Phineas and Ferb	Ropey-Face	Ep. "Doof 101"
2016	Elena of Avalor	Jiku	Recurring role

Self appearances[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	High School Musical DVD Premiere	Himself
2006	High School Musical London Premiere	Himself
2006	Disney Channel Games	Himself	Green Team with Ashley Tisdale, Miley Cyrus, Mitchel Musso, Emily Osment, and Kyle Massey

Music[]

Grabeel sang "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top" with Ashley Tisdale in High School Musical. He also had parts in the songs "We're All in This Together" and "Stick to the Status Quo" also from High School Musical. He sang "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" with Zac Efron, Ashley Tisdale, and Vanessa Hudgens, this song was only on the High School Musical Soundtrack, and a video for it was featured on the DVD. He also sang the song "You Know I Will" by himself for The Fox and the Hound 2. Additionally, he sang "Go the Distance" from Hercules for Disneymania 5. Lucas had released two songs during his time in HSM. The first called "You Got It" which appeared in High School Musical 2 and a second song called "Trash Talkin". In HSM 2, there was a deleted song which he sang in along with Ashley Tisdale. Lucas had a solo in HSM 3 (a reprise of "I Want It All").

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Trivia[]

Before making his acting debut, Grabeel worked a day job as a Blockbuster clerk. Following his Halloweentown High stint and in between other acting gigs, he kept this job and only resigned after the success of the first High School Musical film and prior to filming of High School Musical 2.