Alan Tudyk

Alan Wray Tudyk is an American actor and voice actor 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, Tucker McGee in Tucker amp Dale vs. Evil, Steve the Pirate in DodgeBall A True Underdog Story and Wat in A Knights Tale. He also costarred on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory. He also had a supporting role in the film 42 as baseball manager Ben Chapman and voiced significant roles in Walt Disney Animation Studios WreckIt Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6, and Zootopia. Most recently, he has finished development on the web series Con Man and played Marcus in Maze Runner The Scorch Trials.

Tudyk was born on March 16, 1971 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 standup comic, before quitting after an angry audience member threatened to kill him. Tudyk studied drama at the Methodistaffiliated 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.

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