Zac Efron has always considered his childhood to be normal in a middle class family. His father, David Efron, is an engineer at a power plant, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is a former secretary who worked at the same power plant and has a younger brother, Dylan.

Here are some of  Zac Efron’s childhood photos:

He has said that he would “flip out” if he got a ‘B’ and not an ‘A’ in school, and that he was a “class clown.” Efron’s father encouraged him to begin acting when Zac Efron was eleven; he subsequently appeared in theater productions at his high school, worked in a theater called the Melodrama, began taking singing lessons, performed in plays such as Gypsy, Peter Pan, Little Shop of Horrors, The Music Man and Mame, appearing at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Zac Efron was recommended to an agent in Los Angeles by his drama teacher, Robyn Metchik (the mother of actors Aaron Michael Metchik and Asher Metchik). Zac Efron has two dogs, Australian shepherds named Dreamer and Puppy, and a Siamese cat, named Simon.

Despite now being the sexiest guy Disney has ever permitted on its payroll, Zac Efron reckons he wasn’t cool in his high school days.

The 21-year-old actor insisted to Family Circle that he was nothing like his popular-guy character in High School Musical growing up.

“I was average,” he said.

“I had a lot of friends but I was not in that ultra cool circle. I was a bit of a class clown. I guess to get through the tedium of the quadratic formula, I thought everyone was fair game.

“Between self-discovery and the social hierarchy, high school can be the most confusing time of your life.”

More Efron’s baby photos…

Zac Efron has always been a cutie! Here are a couple of Efron’s baby photos. There, he’s always been a cutie!

A curly haired Zac Efron around 2 years old, , blowing bubbles in his driveway

Efron on his first trip to Disneyland, where he enjoyed everything except the rides, which proved to be a little too scary

Younger pictures of the High School Musical star were shown of him in an American Sports car “Dalorean” and a red ‘65 Mustang, both give to him by his grandfather

We just had to show these too-cute pix to you. Our pals at Pacific Coast News have tons more pics of a certain Mr. Efron during his formative years in Arroyo Grande, California.

There are even Efron’s photo shots of his, um, high school graduation, and several yearbook pix.

Woah. Someone’s letting their frosted tips grow out! Good choice, Zac. Now go get a haircut. You look like a lady.