ALAN TUDYK

'Alan Wray Tudyk' (born March 16, 1971) is an American stage, film, and television actor.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Tudyk, a Polish American,^[1] was born in El Paso, Texas to Betty Loyce (née Wiley) and Timothy Nicholas Tudyk. He was raised in Plano, Texas, where he attended Plano Senior High School. Tudyk studied drama at Lon Morris College (winning the Academic Excellence award for ''Drama'') and Juilliard.

Career

Tudyk is known for his role as Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the cult science fiction/western television series ''Firefly'' and as "Steve the Pirate" in the 2004 comedy , as well as Wat from 2001s A Knight's Tale, with Heath Ledger. He reprised the role of Wash in the feature film ''Serenity''. Tudyk also played a gay German drug addict in the film ''28 Days'', the emotional robot Sonny in ''I, Robot'', a convicted pedophile on '', and most recently, a brief but memorable role in the recently released film ''Knocked Up''.
According to Tudyk's IMDb biography, upon hearing that ''Firefly'' was cancelled, Tudyk threw a "We Don't Work for FOX Anymore" party for the cast and crew of the show. This was confirmed in the audio commentary of the Firefly series DVD.
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''.^[2] Tudyk was in ''Spamalot'' in 2005, from June to December 2005, filling in for Hank Azaria. He is starring in a limited run of ''Prelude to a Kiss'' on Broadway. Also in 2007, he had a supporting role as a strong-willed doctor in the western film alongside Christian Bale and Russell Crowe.

Filmography

★ ''35 Miles from Normal'' (1997)

★ ''Patch Adams'' (1998)

★ ''Wonder Boys'' (2000)

★ ''28 Days'' (2000)

★ ''Strangers with Candy'' (2000) TV

★ ''Frasier'' (2000) TV

★ ''A Knight's Tale'' (2001)

★ ''Hearts in Atlantis'' (2001)

★ ''Ice Age'' (2002)

★ ''Firefly'' (2002-2002) TV

★ '' (2004)

★ ''I, Robot'' (2004)

★ ''Arrested Development'' (2005) TV

★ ''Into the West'' (2005) TV

★ ''Serenity'' (2005)

★ '' (2006)

★ '' (2006) TV

★ ''Knocked Up'' (2007)

★ ''Death at a Funeral'' (2007)

★ '' (2007)

References

1. http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12730.html
2. Butler, Tudyk, Kind, Golden, Huffman cast in reading of musical Xanadu

External links

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★ Star to Fill in for Azaria on ''Monty Python's Spamalot'' During Actor's Hiatus, from the ''Playbill'' website