Trivia

In the Firefly episode "Out of Gas" (1x05) Wash wires up a large, red button for the captain to press if he needs the crew to return to the ship. When he shows it to Mal he says, "When your miracle gets here, just hit this button." When Alan left the Firefly (2002) set after the series was canceled, he took that button as a keepsake. When Joss Whedon announced that he would be searching for a way to bring the show back as either a series or a feature film, Alan sent him the button with a note that said, again, "When your miracle gets here, just hit this button.".

During the filming of Trumbo, he entertained his on-screen son, Elijah Miskowski, and the other kids on set by performing his voice work from Frozen, Ice Age and Wreck It Ralph.

Last name is pronounced "too-dick".

As a nod to his character in Firefly (2002) and Serenity (2005), Alan can be heard in Halo 3 swearing in Chinese, quickly followed by "I wish I was someone else right now!".

In the commentary for both A Knight's Tale (2001) and Knocked Up (2007) the directors mention having to give Alan the role due to his improvisation in the audition, His "your entrails will become your extrails" in A Knight's Tale and his whole "Tighter" bit in Knocked Up.

To prepare for the role of Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), he joined a group of pirate role players called the Rumrunners and spent a week at Pirate Camp.

Threw a we-don't-work-for-Fox-anymore party for the cast and crew of the short-lived TV series Firefly (2002) after he heard that it was canceled.

In preparing for the role of Sonny in the film I, Robot (2004), he studied dance, movement, and mime to accurately portray movement that was programmed in. His work was captured with motion-capture technology.

According to the rest of the Firefly (2002) cast, he was consistently the worst speaker of Chinese on the show. He attributes this to having to learn long and complicated phrases such as "Mother of God and all her wacky nephews" in Mandarin.

Has become something of a good luck charm for Disney, similar to John Ratzenberger for Pixar. As of 2018 he has had a role in every Disney animated film since Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and also as Iago in The Demon Beneath My Wings (2005), all of which have been critical and commercial successes.

According to the "War Stories" (1x09) episode commentary, when he couldn't remember the Chinese dialogue for Firefly (2002), he would just make it up and hope no one noticed.

Alan's most prized possession was a 1964 Mustang, which he named Old Sock.

Smokey and the Bandit (1977) is his favorite movie.

Auditioned for the role of Michael on The Office (2005).

His father is of Polish descent, the son of Emilia (Pogorzelski) and Joseph Bernard Tudyk. His mother is of English, German, Scottish, French, and Dutch ancestry, the daughter of Hattie Doris (Hammack) and Ralph Lloyd Wiley.

Has been cast in the Broadway production of Monty Python's Spamalot. He replaces Hank Azaria who is leaving in early June to film a second season of his Showtime television series Huff!. (May 2005)

Now playing Lancelot on Broadway in Spamalot. (July 2005)

In 1984, he performed in the Haggard Middle School (Plano, Texas) play Aesop's Fables as the Fox and won UIL regional best duet acting with, now internationally famous musician, Karl Poetschke. They performed excerpts from Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple". Alan played Felix.

Has a star tattoo on his back, which can be seen in Conception (2011) and Meet Market (2004).

Alan filled in for Hank Azaria in the Broadway show "Spamalot" while the latter was filming the second season of Huff (2004) and working on the 17th season of The Simpsons (1989). Actress Sara Ramirez, another performer in the production at this time, was in Alan's class (Group 26) at Juilliard.

Playing the lead in "Prelude To A Kiss" on Broadway. (February 2007)

Has two female dogs, Raisin and Clara.

While in college, Alan was active in the Delta Psi Omega fraternity.

ended role of Lancelot on Broadway's production of Spamalot. (December 2005)