Corbin Bleu (Reivers) was born on February 21, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York. Following in the footsteps of his father, David Reivers who is also an actor, Corbin began his career at the age of two by appearing in televsion commercials such as Life Cereal, Bounty, Hasbro, and Nasbisco.
Not long after that, Corbin discovered a passion for dancing and began taking jazz and ballet classes. By the age of four, he was a model with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York and appeared in print ads for stores like Macy's, Gap, Target, and Toys R Us. But Corbin didn't stop there.
At the age of six, Corbin appeared in his first professional theater production off Broadway playing an abandon homeless mute in the play "Tiny Tim is Dead".
In 1996, Corbin and his family moved to Los Angeles where he quickly landed a recurring role on the television series "High Incident". He continued to land small roles in films such as "Mystery Man" featuring Ben Stiller, "Soldier" with Kurt Russell, "Galaxy Quest" with Tim Allen, "ER",
"Malcom & Eddie", "Cover Me", and "The Amanda Show". While in his freshman year of high school, Corbin received his first lead role as Austin in the film “Catch That Kid”. Corbin also continued dancing, eventually becoming one of the first students at the prestigious Debbie Allen Dance Academy.
He then attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major, this time following in his mother's footsteps who attended New York City's famed High School of Performing Arts.
Back in high school, Corbin played the lead role of Ren in the musical "Footloose" and role of "Sonny" in the musical "Grease". In the summer of 2004, Corbin won the role of Nathan on the Discovery Kids television show "Flight 29 Down" which is filmed in Hawaii. During the summer of 2005, Corbin
was cast as Chad in the Disney Channel Movie "High School Musical". Early in January 2007, Corbin's new movie "Jump In" premiered also starring Keke Palmer. Right now, Corbin is keeping busy with his musical career and filming a "Flight 29 Down" movie as well as the sequel to "High School Musical".
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