Alan Wray Tudyk is an American actor and voice artist known for his roles as Hoban "Wash"
Washburne in the space western television series Firefly and movie Serenity, Alpha in
the science fiction TV series Dollhouse, Steve the Pirate in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
and Wat in A Knight's Tale.
He also co-starred on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory.
He also had a supporting role in the film 42 as racist baseball manager Ben Chapman
and voiced significant roles in the Disney animated films Wreck-It Ralph as King Candy
and Frozen as the Duke of Weselton.
He is voicing Alistair Krei in Disney's upcoming animated film Big Hero 6.
Early life Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, the son
of Betty Loyce and Timothy Nicholas Tudyk.
His father is of Polish descent and his mother has German, English, and Scottish ancestry.
He was raised in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where he attended Plano Senior High
School.
He had a brief experience as a stand-up comic, before quitting after an angry audience member
threatened to kill him.
Tudyk studied drama at the Methodist-affiliated Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas
where he won the Academic Excellence award for drama.
While in college, he played Beaver Smith in an eastern New Mexico summer stock theater
production of Billy the Kid.
Tudyk entered Juilliard but left in 1996 before earning a degree.
Career
Film In 2000, Tudyk played Gerhardt, a gay German
drug addict, alongside Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen in 28 Days.
Tudyk played Wat in 2001's A Knight's Tale, as well as Steve the Pirate in the 2004 comedy
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and the emotional robot Sonny in I, Robot.
In 2005, he reprised his role as the playful, easy-going Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the film
Serenity, derived from the cult television series Firefly by Joss Whedon.
In 2007, he had a supporting role as a strong-willed doctor in the western film 3:10 to Yuma alongside
Christian Bale and Russell Crowe along with a brief but memorable role in the film Knocked
Up and a highly physical comedic performance in the British film Death at a Funeral.
Tudyk starred as Tucker in the indie horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs Evil.
He also appears in Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Dutch.
In Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, he voiced Simone.
In 2012, Tudyk appeared in Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, in the role
of Stephen A. Douglas.
Tudyk also voiced the character King Candy in the 2012 Disney animated film, Wreck-It
Ralph, a performance for which he won the Annie Award for Voice Acting.
He plays Ben Chapman in the 2013 movie 42 about Jackie Robinson.
Broadway In 1999, Tudyk made his Broadway debut in
Epic Proportions.
He was also in Wonder of the World, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Misalliance, Oedipus
and Bunny Bunny.
In 2005, Tudyk filled in for Hank Azaria's roles in Spamalot from June to December, and
starred in a limited run of Prelude to a Kiss on Broadway.
Television Among Tudyk's better known roles have been
as the playful, easy-going Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the television series Firefly by Joss Whedon.
Although the series ran for only one season, Universal Studios purchased the rights to
the show and turned it into a film, Serenity, in which he reprised the role.
He did a few voices from Make Way for Noddy.
Tudyk appeared as the cult leader, Father, in a two-part episode of Strangers With Candy
entitled "Blank Stare."
Among several guest spots on popular shows such as Arrested Development, he played a
convicted pedophile on a popular episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Tudyk was cast as a special guest star in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.
The show featured people whose personalities had been erased, with Tudyk portraying Alpha,
a former "active" who accidentally downloaded 48 separate personalities.
Alpha served as the main antagonist of the series' first season, with guest appearances
in the show's second season.
Tudyk also guest-starred in three episodes of ABC's modern remake of the television miniseries
V. Tudyk provided the voice of superhero Green Arrow and villain Psimon in the animated series
Young Justice.
He also co-starred in the ABC comedy series Suburgatory as Noah Werner, a dentist from
the city, who moves to the suburbs.
Video games Tudyk plays the voice of a Marine in the Xbox
360 game Halo 3.
He is joined by his Firefly co-stars Adam Baldwin and Nathan Fillion who both voice
Marines.
All three actors are given personalities in the game matching those of their characters
from Firefly.
Tudyk made an appearance in Halo 3: ODST as the character "Mickey", an elite ODST who
is part of the player character's squad as they try to escape a city invaded by the Covenant.
He also reprised the voice of the DC Comics character Green Arrow in the game Injustice:
Gods Among Us.
Filmography References
External links Alan Tudyk at the Internet Movie Database
Alan Tudyk at the Internet Broadway Database Star to Fill in for Azaria on Monty Python's
Spamalot During Actor's Hiatus, from the Playbill website
Hey, You're That Guy: Alan Tudyk at web2carz.com Alan Tudyk at FEARnet