List of Vanessa Hudgens performances

Hudgens in 2012

The following is the complete list of performances by American actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens.

Vanessa Hudgens made her film debut taking a supporting role in the drama Thirteen (2003). She had her career breakthrough taking the role of Gabriella Montez in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical (2006). She reprised the role in High School Musical 2 (2007) and High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008). She then took leading roles in films such as Beastly (2011), Sucker Punch (2011), Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), and Spring Breakers (2013). She later starred in a string of Netflix Christmas films such as The Princess Switch (2018), The Knight Before Christmas (2019), The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020), and The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021).

On television, she starred in Fox's live musical productions of Grease Live! (2016) and Rent: Live (2019). She has served as a judge on Project Runway All Stars in 2016, So You Think You Can Dance from 2017 to 2018, and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars in 2018. She also competed on Drop the Mic in 2017 and The Masked Singer in 2024 winning both. She has hosted shows such as the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, the 2020 MTV Movie & TV Awards, and the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards. She has also served as the pre-show host for the Academy Awards in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Hudgens made her stage debut playing Cindy-Lou Who in a San Diego production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (1998). She played Mimi Marquez in the musical revival of Jonathan Larson's Rent (2010) at the Hollywood Bowl. She made her Broadway theater debut in The 24 Hour Plays (2012). She took on the title role in the 2015 musical revival of Lerner & Loewe's Gigi both at the Kennedy Center and on Broadway. She played Vanessa in the Kennedy Center's production of the musical revival of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights (2018).

Credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2003	Thirteen	Noel
2004	Thunderbirds	Tin-Tin Kyrano
2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year	Gabriella Montez
2009	Bandslam	Sa5m
	The Ultimate Idol	Herself	Documentary	[1]
2011	Beastly	Lindy Taylor
	Sucker Punch	Blondie
2012	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island	Kailani Laguatan
	Spring Breakers	Candy
2013	Choose You	Ex-girlfriend	Short film	[2]
	The Frozen Ground	Cindy Paulson
	Machete Kills	Cereza Desdemona
	Gimme Shelter	Agnes "Apple" Bailey
2015	Freaks of Nature	Lorelei
2018	Dog Days	Tara
	The Princess Switch	Stacy De Novo / Lady Margaret
	Second Act	Zoe
2019	Polar	Camille
	The Knight Before Christmas	Brooke Winters	Also producer
2020	Bad Boys for Life	Kelly
	The Princess Switch: Switched Again	Stacy De Novo / Lady Margaret / Fiona	Also producer
2021	My Little Pony: A New Generation	Sunny Starscout	Voice role	[3]
	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Karessa Johnson
	The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star	Stacy De Novo / Lady Margaret / Fiona	Also producer	[4]
2022	Asking for It	Beatrice
2023	Dead Hot: Season of the Witch	Herself	Documentary; also co-executive producer	[5]
	Downtown Owl	Naomi		[6]
2024	French Girl	Ruby Collins
	Bad Boys: Ride or Die	Kelly
TBD	Untitled Paul Soriano-directed travel documentary †	Herself	Post-production	[7]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Still Standing	Tiffany	Episode: "Still Rocking"
	Robbery Homicide Division	Nicole	Episode: "Had"
2003	The Brothers García	Lindsay	Episode: "New Tunes"
2005	Quintuplets	Carmen	Episode: "The Coconut Kapow"
2006	Drake & Josh	Rebecca	Episode: "Little Sibling"
	High School Musical	Gabriella Montez	Television film; Disney Channel Original Movie
	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	Corrie	4 episodes (season 2)
2007	High School Musical 2	Gabriella Montez	Television film; Disney Channel Original Movie
2009	Robot Chicken	Lara Lor-Van / Butterbear / Erin Esurance	Voice role; episode: "Especially the Animal Keith Crofford"
2012	Punk'd	Herself	Episode: "Lucy Hale"
2016	High School Musical: 10th Anniversary	Herself	Television special
	Grease Live!	Betty Rizzo	Television special
	Project Runway All Stars	Herself	Episode: "Let it Flow"; guest judge (season 5)
2017	Powerless	Emily Locke	Lead role
	2017 Billboard Music Awards	Herself	Television special; host
	Running Wild with Bear Grylls	Herself	Episode: "Vanessa Hudgens"
	Drop the Mic	Herself	Winner; Episode: "Vanessa Hudgens vs. Michael Bennett"
2017–2018	So You Think You Can Dance	Herself	Seasons 14–15; judge
2018	RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars	Herself	Guest judge; episode: "All-Star Variety Show" (season 3)
2018–2019	Drunk History	Joan of Arc / Marge Callaghan / Mata Hari	Episodes: "The Middle Ages", "Baseball", "Femme Fatales" (seasons 5, 6)
2019	Rent: Live	Maureen Johnson	Television special
2020	MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time	Herself	Television special; host
	The Disney Family Singalong	Herself	Television special
2021	The Boulet Brothers' Dragula	Herself	Guest judge; episode: "Nosferatu Beach Party" (season 4)
	Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3	Herself	Television special; runway model
2022	94th Academy Awards	Herself	Television special; pre-show host
	2022 Met Gala Live	Herself	Livestream special; host[8]
	2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards	Herself	Television special; host
	Entergalactic	Karina	Television special; voice role
	Eli Roth’s Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat	Fairy/dollmaker	VR web special
2023	95th Academy Awards	Herself	Television special; pre-show host
	Rennervations	Herself	Episode: "Chicago: Building a Mobile Music Bus (ft. Vanessa Hudgens)"
	Fright Krewe	Madison	Season 1; recurring voice role
2024	The Masked Singer	Herself / Goldfish	Season 11 winner[9]
	96th Academy Awards	Herself	Television special; pre-show host[10]

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue(s)
1998	Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical	Cindy-Lou Who	Old Globe Theatre[11]
	The King and I	Unknown	Various locations[12][13][14][15][16]
1999	Damn Yankees
	The Wizard of Oz	Dorothy Gale
2000	Cinderella	Cinderella
	The Little Mermaid	Sebastian (9:52–9:55)
2001	Charlotte's Web	Fern Arable
	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Quasimodo
2002	A Christmas Carol	Unknown
	Carousel
2003	Evita
	The Music Man
2010	Rent	Mimi Marquez	Hollywood Bowl[17]
2012	The 24 Hour Plays	Vanessa	Broadway[18]
2015	Gigi	Gigi	Kennedy Center / Broadway
2018	In the Heights	Vanessa	Kennedy Center[19]
2019	The Notebook	Middle Allie	Susan Stein Shiva Theater[20]

See also

• Vanessa Hudgens discography

References

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20. The Notebook 2019 Workshop

External links

• Vanessa Hudgens at IMDb