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Alan Tudyk
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Alan Tudyk is a difficult actor to classify. He’s too good at drama to be relegated to simple comic relief, and he’s too funny to (as of now, anyway) be considered a “serious” actor. Yet regardless of what sort of film he’s in, and regardless of who Tudyk is playing, it is – and this is fact – goddamn impossible not to like him. His characters are oddly lovable even at their most absurd, and his performances are memorable even when they have no right to be.
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Though he lived in Los Angeles before moving to New York and founding the Court Jesters Improv Troupe, actor Alan Tudyk freely admits that he will always be a Texan at heart. Born in El Paso and raised in Plano, Tudyk was a ham even before he pursued a serious acting career at Julliard from 1993 to 1996. Frequently dressing in cowboy garb on family dinner outings and faking fainting spells in school to get a rise out of teachers, it was easy to see that Tudyk had found his calling early in life. Later, performing at the Dallas Shakespeare Festival and founding the city's Rubber Chicken Standup Improv Troupe, Tudyk moved to the West Coast and bounced to the East Coast before making his feature debut in 1997, with 35 Miles From Normal. It didn't take long before Tudyk found more roles in such popular films as Patch Adams (1998) and The Wonder Boys (2000), though his breakthrough role would come as Sandra Bullock's rehab-mate in 28 Days (... 2000). Tudyk's character was so popular with audiences in test screenings, that director Betty Thomas called him back to shoot a scene giving closure to his character within the film.
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Alan Tudyk grew up in Plano, Texas. After high school, Alan attended Lon Morris Junior College from 1990-1991, where he studied drama. While there, he was an active member of Delta Psi Omega. In 1991, he was awarded the Academic Excellence award for Drama, as well as Most Likely to Succeed and Sophomore Beaus. In 1993, he continued his studies at Juilliard until 1996, when he left before earning a degree. He currently lives in New York City.
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Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso, TX and grew up in Plano. At Plano Sr. High he was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" and "Sophomore Beau." Later he went on to pursue acting at Lon Morris Jr. College and was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for Drama. He left that college to study at the prestigious Juilliard conservatory, but left in 1996 before earning a degree. He would move on to star in small stage productions and made his New York debut in "Bunny, Bunny" for which he recieved the Clarence Derwent Award for best New York Theatre debut. He would later finally land a role in the independent film 35 Miles from Normal.
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Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso and raised in Plano. In 1993 he moved to New York to attend Juilliard and upon leaving began his career in the theatre with "Bunny, Bunny,†for which he received the Clarence Derwent award for best New York theatre debut, and a Theatre World award for best actor. Alan has since appeared in several off-Broadway and Broadway plays. Most recently, he was seen in The Roundabout Theatre’s critically acclaimed 2007 revival of "Prelude to a Kiss.â€
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In 1999, Tudyk made his Broadway debut in Epic Proportions. He was ... 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 and starred in a limited run of Prelude to a Kiss on Broadway. 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.
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