Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu Reivers is an American actor and singer born on February 21, 1989. He initially gained widespread recognition in the late 2000s for his starring role as basketball player Chad Danforth in the Disney Channel High School Musical franchise (2006–2008). The trilogy achieved major commercial success, with its soundtracks charting globally. His duet "I Don't Dance" from the second film peaked inside the top 70 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. For his work in the franchise, he earned nominations for an NAACP Image Award, a Young Artist Award, and Teen Choice Awards.

Bleu was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Martha Callari and actor David Reivers. He began modeling at age four with the Ford Modeling Agency, appearing in print advertisements for retailers like Macy's and Gap, as well as on game packaging. At age six, he performed in his first professional theater play, Tiny Tim is Dead. Bleu studied ballet and jazz dance from a young age and later underwent intensive dance instruction at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts in 2007. Although admitted to Stanford University, he declined to matriculate.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1996, Bleu secured episodic television roles on series such as High Incident, ER, and Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family, alongside feature film appearances in Galaxy Quest (1999) and Mystery Men (1999). He landed his first major film role in the teen action movie Catch That Kid (2004). Later that year, he was cast as Nathan McHugh in the Discovery Kids television series Flight 29 Down, which ran for three seasons.

Following his success in High School Musical, Bleu starred as Izzy Daniels in the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In! (2007), which became a major ratings success for the network. He launched his music career in 2007 with his debut solo album Another Side, featuring the single "Push It to the Limit." The album peaked at number 36 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. He released his second studio album, Speed of Light, in 2009. His additional television work during this period included guest appearances on Hannah Montana and a lead role in the series The Beautiful Life: TBL (2009).

In 2010, Bleu made his Broadway stage debut starring as Usnavi in In the Heights. He returned to Broadway in 2012 for a revival of Godspell, and later starred as Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn (2016) and as Bill Calhoun/Lucentio in Kiss Me, Kate (2019). His Broadway soundtrack recordings were distributed through Ghostlight Records. In April 2025, Bleu made his West End debut playing Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum, a performance that earned him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination.

Throughout his career, Bleu has appeared in a variety of additional feature films, including Free Style (2009), Scary or Die (2012)—which he also co-produced—Nurse 3D (2013), To Write Love on Her Arms (2015), Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019), and Camp Hideout (2023). On television, he joined the online revival of One Life to Live in 2013 and competed on the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars.