Corbin Bleu

Bleu was born in New York City, in the borough of Brooklyn, the son of Martha (née Callari) and David Reivers (born 1958), an actor.

His mother is Italian-American and his father is Jamaican-American.

He has three younger sisters.

As a child, Bleu studied dance for several years, focusing on ballet and jazz.

His great-uncle is actor Joseph Callari.

Bleu appeared in television commercials starting at age two, for products such as Life cereal, Bounty, Hasbro and Nabisco.

He began taking jazz and ballet classes, usually as the only boy in the class.

By age four he was a model with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York.

He appeared in print ads for stores such as Macy's, Gap, Target and Toys R Us and in fashion spreads in Child, Parents, and American Baby magazines, as well as having his image on toys and game packaging.

At age six, Bleu appeared in his first professional theater production, at The Town Hall.

This three-concert series, created, written, and hosted by Scott Siegel, took place over one weekend and included a tribute to David Merrick.

Bleu played an abandoned homeless mute in the play Tiny Tim is Dead.

Bleu graduated from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

He trained in dancing at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy and attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts as a theater major, following in his mother's footsteps.

Corbin Bleu Reivers (born February 21, 1989) is an American actor and singer.

Bleu moved with his family from New York to Los Angeles in 1996.

He worked steadily in episodic television and feature film roles, including a recurring role on the short-lived ABC police drama High Incident and a guest star appearance on ER.

He also appeared in some films, like Beach Movie (1998) and the sci-fi thriller Soldier (1998).

His feature films from this period include the Tim Allen comedy Galaxy Quest (1999), the comedy Mystery Men (1999), and the drama Family Tree (1999), Bleu also had roles in Malcolm & Eddie, as Matthew, and Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family (2000), as Nick Elderby, and smaller roles like in the comedy series Nickelodeon's show The Amanda Show.

He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence in the late 2000s for his leading role as Chad Danforth in the High School Musical trilogy (2006–2008).

Songs from the films also charted worldwide, with the song "I Don't Dance" peaking inside the Top 70 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Additionally, Bleu was developing his dance skills and in 2001 began intensive training at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.

There he undertook a full gamut of dance instruction, including ballet, jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop, African, break dance, salsa, flamenco and ballroom.

He made his acting debut in the 2004 adventure comedy film Catch That Kid.

He has since appeared in the Discovery Kids drama series Flight 29 Down (2005–2007).

During this time, he also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In! (2007) and the film To Write Love on Her Arms (2015).

Bleu has also pursued a music career and his debut album Another Side was released in 2007, which included the hit "Push It to the Limit".

The album debuted and peaked at number 36 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, selling 18,000 copies in its first week.

Bleu graduated from high school in 2007 and was admitted to Stanford University, but declined to matriculate.

His second album, Speed of Light, was released in 2009.

He returned to television, starring in the short-lived Ashton Kutcher–produced CW series The Beautiful Life: TBL (2009) and the movie Free Style (2009).

In 2010, Bleu played Usnavi in the Broadway company of In the Heights.

He has appeared in the films The Little Engine That Could (2011), Scary or Die (2012), Nurse 3D (2013), Sugar (2013), The Monkey's Paw (2013), Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019), Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022), and Camp Hideout (2023).

In 2012, he returned to Broadway in the revival of Godspell.

In 2013, he was cast as Jeffrey King in the short-lived online revival of the daytime soap One Life to Live.

In 2016, Bleu played Ted Hanover in the Broadway company of Holiday Inn, the New Irving Berlin Musical.

He competed in the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars.

He subsequently signed a recording contract with Ghostlight Records, to distribute his Holiday Inn soundtrack music, released in 2017.

In 2019, he returned to play Bill Calhoun/Lucentio in the Broadway company of Kiss Me, Kate.

He subsequently signed a recording contract with Ghostlight Records, to distribute his Kiss Me, Kate soundtrack music, released on June 7, 2019.