page_title: Lucas Grabeel
section_title: 2004–08: Beginning and High School Musical
hierarchical_section_title: Lucas Grabeel / Career / 2004–08: Beginning and High School Musical
caption_attribution_description: Lucas Grabeel and Corbin Bleu in concert of High School Musical
context_page_description: Lucas Stephen Grabeel is an American actor, producer, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his role as Ryan Evans in the High School Musical film series. Grabeel has also appeared in films, such as Halloweentown High, Return to Halloweentown, Alice Upside Down, The Adventures of Food Boy, and Milk. He appeared as a young Lex Luthor and Conner Kent in the television series Smallville.
  Grabeel played Toby Kennish in the ABC Family/Freeform drama series Switched at Birth. He also provided the voice of Deputy Peck in the Disney Junior television series Sheriff Callie's Wild West. Since 2019, Grabeel has voiced the title character in the Netflix series Pinky Malinky.
context_section_description: In 2004, he starred in his first film role as Ethan Dolloway in the third installment of the Halloweentown series Halloweentown High. He reprised this role in the series' fourth installment Return to Halloweentown. Grabeel has made television guest appearances in TV series such as Boston Legal, 'Til Death, and Veronica Mars. On Smallville, he portrayed a young Lex Luthor. In 2006, he was cast in the role of Ryan Evans, the fraternal twin brother of Sharpay Evans (played by Ashley Tisdale), in the Disney movie High School Musical. He reprised his role in the television sequels High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year. In 2007, he joined co-stars Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman on the 51-date High School Musical: The Concert. In early 2009, Billboard believed that Grabeel and Tisdale's track "I Want It All" should be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category however, the song did not make the final shortlist. During his time in High School Musical, Grabeel (along with his co-stars) had a total of six tracks chart in the Billboard Hot 100.
  He was the first artist to debut in the Billboard Hot 100 with two simultaneous new entries in one week. While with Disney Channel, Grabeel 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. A year later, he returned to repeat his captaincy of the green team with Dylan Sprouse, Miley Cyrus, Monique Coleman and Brandon Baker. Other film projects Grabeel was involved with include the animated film, At Jesus' Side, where he voiced a dog named Jericho. He also filmed the independent film, Alice Upside Down, as the character of Lester McKinley, based on the "Alice book series" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Aside his involvement in the High School Musical soundtracks, Grabeel has recorded a song called "You Know I Will" for the soundtrack of The Fox and the Hound 2 and also recorded his own version of the Michael Bolton track "Go the Distance", from Disney's Hercules, for DisneyMania 5. 
  In 2007, Grabeel co-wrote and recorded a song called "You Got It" which was released in the iTunes Store on August 19, 2007 while its accompanying music video was released on his official website. Grabeel also recorded another original song called "Trash Talkin'" which was released November 15, 2008 on YouTube. In 2008, 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 Danny Nicoletta. He also appeared in the 2008 Walt Disney Pictures film College Road Trip as Scooter, which features other Disney stars Raven-Symoné, Brenda Song and Margo Harshman. He also stars in the independent movie Lock and Roll Forever alongside Oreskaband. Grabeel also guest starred in an episode of The Cleveland Show.
caption: Grabeel (left) and Corbin Bleu (right) in High School Musical: The Concert, in 2007
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