Tudyk's television roles include Wash on the space Western drama series Firefly (2002–2003). The show ran for one season and developed a cult following after the series aired.[4] He reprised the role in the 2005 continuation film Serenity expanding on the events of the final episode of the series. His other roles include the 2007 English black comedy film Death at a Funeral, the sitcomArrested Development (2005, 2013, 2019), the science fiction series Dollhouse (2009–2010), the superhero animated series Young Justice (2010–2013, 2019), and various voices on the animated series American Dad! (2011–present). Tudyk played Dr. Noah Werner on the sitcom Suburgatory (2011–2014). He also starred in the comedy series Newsreaders (2014–2015), the animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2015–2019), voiced Dangerboat in the series The Tick (2017–2019), played K-2SO in the 2016 film Rogue One, and Eric Morden / Mr. Nobody on the series Doom Patrol (2019). In video games he voiced Mickey in Halo 3: ODST (2009) as well as reprising his roles K-2SO in Star Wars Battlefront (2015) and as the Green Arrow in various DC Super Hero Video Games (2013, 2015, & 2017)
Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of Betty Loyce (née Wiley) and Timothy Nicholas Tudyk. His father's family is of Polish ancestry.[5][6] Tudyk was raised in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas,[7] where he attended Plano Senior High School.[citation needed] He had a brief experience as a stand-up comic before quitting after an angry audience member threatened to kill him.[8] 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 was later accepted into and attended the Juilliard School, but left in 1996 without earning a degree.
In 2014, Tudyk took over the role of lead anchor on the live-action adult swim comedy, Newsreaders. He appeared as the cult leader, Father, in a two-part episode of Strangers With Candy entitled "Blank Stare". Among several guest spots on shows such as Arrested Development, he played a convicted child sex offender on an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He was cast as a special guest star in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.[7] 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. He provided the voice of superhero Green Arrow and villain Psimon in the animated series Young Justice.[25] He also co-starred in the ABC comedy series Suburgatory as Noah Werner, a dentist from the city, who moves to the suburbs.[26] Tudyk voiced Debbie the prostitute in season 3 of The Life and Times of Tim. He also provided the voices of Ludo Avarius and King River Butterfly in the Disney animated series Star vs the Forces of Evil.
In 2015, Tudyk released his own web seriesCon Man based loosely upon his experiences touring the convention circuit after the cancellation of Firefly.[27] He was a main cast member of the DC Comics-based show Powerless.
In 2017, season 2 of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency saw Tudyk in the role of Mr. Priest, a rogue Blackwing operative who is on familiar terms with Dirk, Bart and the Rowdy 3. Tudyk then later returned to the Transformers franchise by voicing Optimus Prime in the EarthSpark animated series.[28]
^Roberts, Sheila. "Alan Tudyk Interview, Death At A Funeral". MoviesOnline.ca. Archived from the originalArchived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine on July 16, 2011. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
^ abcSaraiya, Sonia (July 7, 2014). "Alan Tudyk on never playing the same role twice—except that one time". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved July 7, 2014. 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. He's changed his name. He went through rehab, and he got into the armed forces, he met up with Agent Simmons. He became a contract killer, he's overthrown governments in the third world. And then he got burned out and decided the only thing that he could do with his life was to devote himself to working with Agent Simmons, who's played by John Turturro. So there's a line in that movie where there's one scene that I got to do. It was a fun scene, where we're in a Russian mafia bar-club-hangout, and they pull guns, and I lose it and I pull a bunch of guns. I punch a woman. I knock people out and I escalate the violence extremely, and then I have John—Agent Simmons—saying, "Down, Dutch. Down, Dutch. Breathe, breathe." And I stop and say [in Dutch's voice]: "Oh my God. That's the old me." And that was an improv commenting on the fact that it's the old me, who had gone through this whole killing people and contract killer world because before, I was Gerhardt. Anyway, it's a long way to say I've repeated myself, but I hope not too much.
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