Vanessa Hudgens Movies: Every Film Credit, 2003–2024

Vanessa Hudgens has 26 credited film roles, and they are not spread evenly: 14 of them fall in the 2010s. Filmographies usually cluster like that, and the cluster is the useful part: it tells you which period someone is actually associated with, which is rarely the period a search result puts in front of you.

Every Vanessa Hudgens film credit

In release order, with the character recorded where the source carries it — 2 of 26 here.

1. 01 Thirteen 2003
2. 02 Thunderbirds 2004
3. 03 High School Musical as Gabriella Montez 2006
4. 04 High School Musical 2 as Gabriella Montez 2007
5. 05 High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008
6. 06 Bandslam 2009
7. 07 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 2010
8. 08 Sucker Punch 2011
9. 09 Beastly 2011
10. 10 A Warrior's Heart 2011
11. 11 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 2012
12. 12 Machete Kills 2013
13. 13 Gimme Shelter 2013
14. 14 Spring Breakers 2013
15. 15 The Frozen Ground 2013
16. 16 Freaks of Nature 2015
17. 17 Second Act 2018
18. 18 Dog Days 2018
19. 19 The Princess Switch 2018
20. 20 Polar 2019
21. 21 Bad Boys for Life 2020
22. 22 The Princess Switch: Switched Again 2020
23. 23 Tick, Tick... Boom! 2021
24. 24 The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star 2021
25. 25 Bad Boys: Ride or Die 2024
26. 26 French Girl 2024

Where the credits fall

One frame per year from 2003 to 2024, filled where a credit lands, empty where none does. The empty frames are the informative part: a filmography is usually described by its total, and the total is the one thing that hides the gaps.

1. 03 1
2. 04 1
3. 05
4. 06 1
5. 07 1
6. 08 1
7. 09 1
8. 10 1
9. 11 3
10. 12 1
11. 13 4
12. 14
13. 15 1
14. 16
15. 17
16. 18 3
17. 19 1
18. 20 2
19. 21 2
20. 22
21. 23
22. 24 2

2000s: 6 · 2010s: 14 · 2020s: 6

The shape of the career

The first credit on record is 2003 and the most recent is 2024, with work in 16 separate years. 2013 was the busiest single year, with 4 credits landing in it, the kind of cluster that usually reflects films shot earlier arriving at once rather than an unusually productive twelve months.

The longest gap runs 3 years, between 2021 and 2024. A gap that size in a screen filmography is worth noticing rather than smoothing over: it is where the record stops describing a run of work and starts describing whatever happened instead, a project that collapsed, a move into other media, or simply nothing being offered.

Reading the list

26 credits across 16 working years averages out at roughly 1.6 per year in the years with any work at all, a figure worth treating carefully, because release dates bunch and a filmography is a record of when films came OUT rather than when they were made. Of the 26 credits, 2 carry a character name, so the rest are placed by film and year alone.

What this page is built from

Structured film records, pulled by the same process that produces the cast pages here, not written from memory, which for credit data is how errors get in. What that source is reliable about is who was credited. What it carries unevenly is character names, and what it almost never carries is billing order, so nothing here calls any of these 26 credits a lead role, because the data cannot support that claim.

Questions about Vanessa Hudgens

How many films has Vanessa Hudgens been in?

26 credited film roles are on record, running from 2003 to 2024. That counts feature credits only, so television and uncredited appearances are not included.

When was Vanessa Hudgens most active in film?

The 2010s, with 14 of the 26 credits. The full spread across decades is listed above.

Why are some roles missing?

Character names are recorded for 2 of the 26 credits. The source is reliable about who was cast and patchy about what they were called, so the rest say the role is not recorded instead of leaving a blank that reads like an oversight.

Where do these details come from?

Structured film records pulled from Wikidata by the same process that builds the cast pages here, cross-checked against each film's own listed cast rather than written from memory. Where the record is thin — a missing character name, an unconfirmed billing order — the page says so, which is more useful than a confident sentence with nothing behind it.