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Lucas Stephen Grabeel ( "GRAY-beel"; born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ryan Evans (Sharpay's fraternal twin brother) in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical and its sequels, High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year, and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of the Halloweentown series, Halloweentown High, and Return to Halloweentown.
eel was born in Springfield, Missouri the son of Jean and Stephen Grabeel.
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Lucas Stephen Grabeel ( "GRAY-beel"; born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ryan Evans (Sharpay's fraternal twin brother) in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical and its sequels, High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year, and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of the Halloweentown series, Halloweentown High, and Return to Halloweentown.
Biography
Early life
Grabeel was born in Springfield, Missouri the son of Jean and Stephen Grabeel. He attended Logan-Rogersville elementary, middle, and high school before transfering to and graduating from Kickapoo High School in Springfield in 2003. Following graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to become an actor.
Acting
Just 5 months after moving, Grabeel landed a commercial, and soon after , he landed his first Disney Channel Original Movie, Halloweentown High. His debut performance was in the blockbuster made- for television Disney movie, High School Musical as Ryan Evans, in which he sang two duet songs with Ashley Tisdale, "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top". He also sang with Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Tisdale in "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" which was not in the movie, but was an extra track on the soundtrack. Grabeel is a tenor. He was offered a role on "The suite life Of Zack and Cody" but the role went to his co-star, Zac Efron, because of the brother-sister dynamic established in the High School Musical movies.
Grabeel has made TV guest appearances on TV series such as Boston Legal, Smallville, Til Death, and Veronica Mars. He also participated in the first ever Disney Channel Games and co-captained the green team along with Ashley Tisdale, Mitchel Musso, Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment and Kyle Massey. Grabeel also reprised his role as Ethan Dalloway in the fourth Halloweentown movie, "Return to Halloweentown". On Thanksgiving Day 2006, he was featured on a High School Musical float with co-stars and Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman singing the number "We're All in This Together", both Grabeel and Bleu splitting half of Zac Efron's (Troy) lines from the song. Grabeel also sang the same song, at the 2006 Miss Teen USA pageant, singing the chorus by himself while the contestants introduced themselves. In June 2007, he returned to the Disney Channel Games as captain of the green team with Dylan Sprouse, Miley Cyrus, Monique Coleman and Brandon Baker and later appeared in the 2008 Walt Disney Pictures film College Road Trip as Scooter, which features other Disney stars Raven-Symone, Brenda Song and Margo Harshman.
Grabeel recently filmed the movie Alice Upside Down, as the character of Lester McKinley, which is an independent film based on the "Alice" book series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It was released direct-to-DVD in July 2008, in the movie, he is seen with a shaven head, due to the role of Lester coming so shortly after he had portrayed a young Lex Luthor, in the television series Smallville. He also recorded the voice of a dog in the upcoming animated film, At Jesus' Side. In January 2007, he finished touring on the High School Musical: The Concert. Grabeel also recorded "You Know I Will" for The Fox and the Hound 2. On April 13, 2007, Grabeel finished production on High School Musical 2, in which he returned as Ryan Evans. This premiered on the Disney Channel on August 17, 2007. He had duets with Tisdale as in the original movie, but also had a "show stopper" song with Corbin Bleu (as Chad) in "I Don't Dance." Grabeel also recorded "Go The Distance" for the CD Disneymania 5. Lucas reprised his role as Ryan Evans in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which arrived in theaters October 24th and has been released to DVD. He will also be starring as Ezra in The Adventures of Food Boy. He also appeared in the movie Milk, a biopic about the slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Grabeel played a friend and supporter of Milk, photographer Daniel Nicoletta. Grabeel's latest movie project is The Legend of the Dancing Ninja, which is apparently a sequel to Beverly Hills Ninja.
Singing
In 2007 Grabeel recorded and wrote a song called You Got It.The song was released on iTunes on August 19. 2007 and a music video was released on his official website. Grabeel also recorded the song "Trash Talkin'" (another original song) which was released November 15, 2008 on YouTube. An upcoming song from Grabeel is "Get Your Ass On".
Production company
In 2007 Grabeel founded a production company called 14341 Productions.
They have produced projects such as The Real Son, "Get Your Ass On", Regarding Beauregard, You Got It and Smoke Break. They are currently working on "The Adventures Of Chuckle Boy", and have just released a short film, "The Dragon".
Trivia
- Grabeel appeared in a episode of Mike's Super Short Show to launch the release of Halloweentown High on DVD.
- Grabeel appeared in a Sara Lee commercial along-side High School Musical 3: Senior Year co-stars to promote the release of the movie.
- Grabeel was voted Most Likely To Do Big Things in 2009 by MTV and had an exclusive interview with them.
- Grabeel graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, MO. Other graduates of Kickapoo include Brad Pitt, Jay Kenneth Johnson (North Shore), Sterling Macer (Star Trek-Next Generation) and Adrienne Wilkinson (Xena: Warrior Princess).
Filmography
Discography
Soundtracks
Other songs
Awards
- Grabeel's short film The Real Son won the Gold Medal For Excellence in 2007.
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