{"id":416676,"date":"2026-08-25T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416676\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:12:08","slug":"plano-senior-alum-alan-tudyk-inducted-as-a-disney-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416676\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Senior alum Alan Tudyk inducted as a Disney Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since graduating from Plano Senior High School in 1990, Alan Tudyk has acted in dozens of films, including voice work for Disney.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his acting prowess, <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/texas-theatre-scholars-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano Senior High School<\/a> alum Alan Tudyk is known by Disney fans for his voice work in Zootopia, Moana, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Star Wars: Secrets of Empire, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Aladdin, Frozen II and Encanto,\u00a0to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>For these roles, he was inducted as a Disney Legend earlier this month at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event alongside Chris Berman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Susan Egan, Eric Goldberg, Anne Hathaway, Kim Irvine, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson, the Jonas Brothers and Lin-Manuel Miranda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cD23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event is where we come together to give our incredible fans an early look at what\u2019s coming next across our company, while celebrating the legacy of the extraordinary people whose creativity has shaped Disney into what it is today,\u201d said Josh D\u2019Amaro, Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to celebrate our Disney Legends \u2014 their impact is felt in everything we do and recognizing them alongside the fans who love their work is what makes this event so meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d23.com\/a-to-z\/disney-legends\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Legends<\/a> is a Hall of Fame award given by The Walt Disney Company to people who have \u201cmade major contributions to the company over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany actors have range, but Alan Tudyk\u2019s range makes him one of Disney\u2019s go-to voice actors, and in some cases\u2026lucky charm. In fact, his vocal versatility is\u2026Turbo-Tastic,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/d23.com\/ultimatefanevent2026\/disneylegends\/alantudyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney\u2018s website says of the actor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tudyk voiced King Candy\/Turbo in\u00a0Wreck-It Ralph,\u00a0and has been in every Disney animated movie since then, according to\u00a0Disney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tudyk graduated Plano Senior High School in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since graduating from Plano Senior High School in 1990, Alan Tudyk has acted in dozens of films, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[145178,7166,145179,160,162,161,145180,145181],"class_list":["post-416676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-alan-tudyk","tag-disney","tag-disney-legends","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-senior-high-school","tag-the-walt-disney-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}