Alan Tudyk
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Alan Tudyk (born March 16, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Hoban "Wash" Washburne in Firefly and its feature film Serenity, as well as Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Sonny in I, Robot, Tucker McGee in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Eric Morden/Mr. Nobody in Doom Patrol and the titular character of Resident Alien.
In the realm of voice acting, he has appeared in multiple Star Wars productions as K-2SO, multiple DC Comics productions as Green Arrow, Star vs. the Forces of Evil as Ludo Avarius and King River Butterfly, the Harley Quinn animated series as the Joker and Clayface, and every Walt Disney Animation Studios film since 2012, most notably as King Candy in Wreck it Ralph, the Duke of Weaseltown Weselton in Frozen, and Alistair Krei in Big Hero 6.
In addition to acting, Tudyk served as the creator and star of the web series, Con Man.
Roles
[edit]- Optimus Prime
- Crowd (Secret Legacy, Part 2)
- Plain Clothes G.H.O.S.T. Agent ("The Battle of Witwicky")
- Photographer ("Dude, Where's My Trailer?")
Notes
[edit]- Tudyk didn't actually realize he'd been cast as Optimus Prime in EarthSpark right away. As he puts it, when he first got the e-mail offering him the role, his brain instinctively rejected the idea that he'd be asked to play Optimus and instead focused in on the "Prime" part, remembering that there were other Primes from his time on Dark at the Moon and assuming he'd play some one-off joke character like "Optometrist Prime" or "Amazon Prime". It wasn't until he got his script a few days before recording and saw all the "Optimus" lines highlighted that it finally clicked and he started freaking out.<ref>Alan Tudyk Didn't Realize He'd Been Cast As Optimus Prime In Transformers: Earthspark — SlashFilm</ref>
- In a 2014 interview with The A.V. Club, Tudyk stated that the Dutch character from Dark of the Moon was, in fact, his character Gerhardt from the Sandra-Bullock-in-rehab movie 28 Days, claiming the character had gone through rehab, become a globe-trotting hitman, and finally settled down as a manservant for Seymour Simmons.<ref>{{#if: Confession: The same role I did in 28 Days, with Sandra Bullock—I did it in Transformers. His name was Dutch, but I said: He's the same guy. Not only does he kind of seem like the same guy—he's the absolute same guy. |"Confession: The same role I did in 28 Days, with Sandra Bullock—I did it in Transformers. His name was Dutch, but I said: He's the same guy. Not only does he kind of seem like the same guy—he's the absolute same guy."—|}}{{#if: http://www.avclub.com/article/alan-tudyk-never-playing-same-role-twiceexcept-one-206381 |Alan Tudyk|Alan Tudyk}}{{#if: The A.V. Club |, The A.V. Club|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: |, {{#if: |/{{#switch:{{#len:}}|1=0{{{month}}}|{{{month}}}}}{{#if: |/{{#switch:{{#len:}}|1=0{{{day}}}|{{{day}}}}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: http://www.avclub.com/article/alan-tudyk-never-playing-same-role-twiceexcept-one-206381 ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:http://www.avclub.com/article/alan-tudyk-never-playing-same-role-twiceexcept-one-206381%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:http://www.avclub.com/article/alan-tudyk-never-playing-same-role-twiceexcept-one-206381%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:http://www.avclub.com/article/alan-tudyk-never-playing-same-role-twiceexcept-one-206381%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:http://www.avclub.com/article/alan-tudyk-never-playing-same-role-twiceexcept-one-206381%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref>
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Alan Tudyk|{{#if:||Alan Tudyk}}]] at Wikipedia
- Alan Tudyk at Twitter