Firefly), Steve the Pirate (
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), and Mr. Nobody (
Doom Patrol), to name a few but never as No. 1 on a series call sheet.
That s finally being remedied by
Resident Alien, in which Tudyk embodies an alien who s crash-landed on Earth and assumes the body of a rural Colorado doctor Harry Vanderspeigle. All he wants is to look for a lost piece of his spaceship in peace, but Harry is conscripted by the local cops to help them solve a murder that s happened in town. That means mingling with the enemy and trying to look like his Harry belongs with other humans and on this planet, which is exactly up Tudyk s alley.