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Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and starred in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the comedy series Spaced.

He also portrayed Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott in the 2009 Star Trek film, Benji Dunn in Mission: Impossible III and its sequel Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, and Thompson in The Adventures of Tintin. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Wright, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, and Dylan Moran. He also starred in and co-wrote Paul (with Frost) and Run Fatboy Run (with Michael Ian Black).

This book is your ultimate resource for Simon Pegg. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Simon Pegg, Asylum (TV series), Faith in the Future, Is It Bill Bailey?, Big Train, Spaced, Tube Tales, Hippies (TV series), Brass Eye, Band of Brothers (TV miniseries), List of Band of Brothers episodes, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, Look Around You, Linda Green, I Am Not an Animal, Spider-Plant Man, The Long Game, Doctor Who Confidential, The Sunday Night Project, Robot Chicken, A Quiet Word With ..., Guest House Paradiso, The Parole Officer, 24 Hour Party People, Shaun of the Dead, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, Land of the Dead, Mission: Impossible III, Big Nothing, Free Jimmy, Grindhouse (film), The Good Night, Hot Fuzz, Run Fatboy Run, Diary of the Dead, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (film), Star Trek (film), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Burke and Hare (film), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Paul (film), Scrat's Continental Crack-up, The Adventures of Tintin (film), Thomson and Thompson, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Untitled Star Trek sequel, A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

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Contents

Articles Simon Pegg Asylum (TV series) Faith in the Future Is It Bill Bailey? Big Train Spaced Tube Tales Hippies (TV series) Brass Eye Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) List ofBand of Brothersepisodes Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible Look Around You Linda Green I Am Not an Animal Spider-Plant Man The Long Game Doctor Who Confidential The Sunday Night Project Robot Chicken A Quiet Word With ... Guest House Paradiso The Parole Officer 24 Hour Party People Shaun of the Dead The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Land of the Dead Mission: Impossible III Big Nothing Free Jimmy Grindhouse (film) The Good Night Hot Fuzz

Run Fatboy Run

1 8 10 11 13 15 20 24 26 30 37 40 42 48 50 52 54 58 67 79 85 88 90 92 98 106 110 115 122 126 131 146 148 157

Diary of the Dead How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (film) Star Trek (film) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Burke and Hare (film) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Paul (film) Scrat's Continental Crack-up The Adventures of Tintin (film) Thomson and Thompson Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol UntitledStar Treksequel A Fantastic Fear of Everything

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

Article Licenses License

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Simon Pegg

Pegg at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2010.

Born

Simon John Beckingham 14 February 1970 Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England

Other namesThe Fresh Pegg

Occupation

Years active

Spouse

Children

Actor, comedian, writer, producer, singer, director

1995–present

Maureen McCann (2005–present)

Daughter

Website

[1] www.peggster.net

Simon Pegg(bornSimon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and starred in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead,Hot Fuzz, and the comedy seriesSpaced.

He also portrayed Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the 2009Star Trekfilm, Benji Dunn inMission: Impossible IIIand its sequelMission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol, and Thompson inThe Adventures of Tintin. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Wright, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, and Dylan Moran.

Early life Pegg was born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Gillian Rosemary (n e Smith), a civil servant, [2] and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman. His parents divorced when he was seven [3] [4] and he took on the surname "Pegg" after his mother re-married. He attended many schools, including Castle Hill Primary School, Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School, King's School Gloucester, and later Stratford-upon-Avon College to study English literature and performance studies. Pegg studied drama at the University of Bristol and wrote his undergraduate thesis on "A Marxist overview of popular 1970s cinema and [4] hegemonic discourses". At Bristol he appeared in a Drama Society production of Howard Barker'sVictory

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alongside Sarah Kane and David Greig.

Career Early appearances in TV series and films includeAsylum,Six Pairs of Pants,Faith in the Future,Big Trainand Hippies. Between 1998 and 2004, Pegg regularly featured on BBC Radio 4'sThe 99p Challenge. In 1999, he created and co-wrote the Channel 4 sitcomSpacedwith Jessica Stevenson. For this project Pegg brought in Nick Frost. For his performance in this series, Pegg was nominated for a British Comedy Award as Best Male Comedy Newcomer. Pegg co-wrote (withSpaceddirector Edgar Wright) and starred in the "romantic zombie comedy" filmShaun of the Dead, released in April 2004. At George A. Romero's invitation, Pegg and Wright made cameo appearances in Romero's film,Land of the Dead. In 2004, Pegg also starred in a spin-off of the television showDanger! 50,000 Volts!calledDanger! 50,000 Zombies!, in which he played a zombie hunter named Dr. Russel Fell. Pegg's other credits include the World War II mini-seriesBand of Brothers, guest appearances onBlack Books,Brass Eye Special,I'm Alan Partridge,The Parole Officerand in the Factory Records story24 Hour Party People. He also played the mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha, the Strontium Dog, in a series of Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the character from British comic2000 ADand featured inGuest House Paradiso, a film based on the sitcomBottom.

Pegg at a premiere for Star Trek in April 2009

Hank Azaria.

Pegg appeared in the Big Finish ProductionsDoctor Whoaudio storyInvaders From Marsas Don Chaney, and portrayed the Editor in the 2005Doctor Who episode "The Long Game". He also narrated the first series of the documentary seriesDoctor Who Confidential.

Upon completion ofShaun of the Dead, Pegg was questioned on whether he would be abandoning the British film industry for bigger and better things, to which he replied "It's not like I'm going to run off and doMission: Impossible III!" However, he then went on to play Benji Dunn, an I.M.F. technician who [5] assists Tom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt. In 2006 he played an American character, Gus, inBig Nothingalongside David Schwimmer.

In 2006, Pegg and Wright completed their second film,Hot Fuzz, released in February 2007. The film is a police-action movie homage and also stars Nick Frost. Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a London policeman who is transferred to rural Sandford, a fictional village situated in Pegg's home county of Gloucestershire, where grisly events take place.

In 2007, Pegg starred inThe Good Night(directed by Jake Paltrow) andRun Fatboy Rundirected by David Schwimmer and co-starring Thandie Newton and

In 2008, Pegg wrote the dialogue for an English language re-release of the cult 2006 animated Norwegian film,Free Jimmy. Pegg received screenwriting credit for this, and Pegg also voiced one of the main characters in the English language version, which has an international range of actors including Woody Harrelson. Pegg co-wrote and starred with Frost in the filmPaul, about two young men who encounter a comedic [6] [7] extraterrestrial alien during a road trip across the US. The completed script appeared on the 2008 Black List, a [8] film-industry-compiled list of the best unproduced screenplays.Paulreceived two votes. Pegg also announced that he and Wright had the idea for "the concluding part in what we are calling 'The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" (the first two beingShaun of the DeadandHot Fuzz). It is provisionally calledThe [9] World Ends.

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In those films and inSpaced, Pegg typically plays the leading hero while Frost plays the sidekick. However, he has [10] revealed thatPaulwill reverse this dynamic. [11] Pegg played engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the eleventhStar Trekfilm, released 8 May 2009. In 2010 he appeared as William Burke inBurke and Hare, a film directed by John Landis about the Ulster men who were notorious murderers and bodysnatchers in early 19th-century Edinburgh. His likeness was also used for the character of Wee Hughie in the comic book seriesThe Boys; while this was done without Pegg's permission, he quickly [12] became a fan of the title, and even wrote the introduction to the first bound volume. He also voiced Reepicheep, [13] the heroic mouse inChronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Pegg will be reprising the role of Benji Dunn inMission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol, making him the only actor from the film series other than Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames (who portrayed their characters in every film) to [14] appear in more than one of the films.

Personal life [15] Pegg married Maureen McCann on 23 July 2005. On 21 February 2009, Pegg announced his wife was five months pregnant with the [15] [16] couple's first child. Their daughter Matilda was born circa early [17] July, 2009. Pegg has stated on his personal Twitter feed that he is an [18] atheist.

Along with Jonny Buckland, Pegg is godfather to Apple, daughter of [19] close friends Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow in return Martin is [20] godfather to Pegg's daughter. Pegg's parents and sister briefly appeared inSpacedwhile his mother alone appeared in bothShaun of the DeadandHot Fuzz.

Pegg was awarded an honorary fellowship by the University of [21] Gloucestershire on 4 December 2008.

Credits

Television

Year

1995

1996

1997

1998

Programme

Six Pairs of Pants

Asylum

Faith in the Future

I'm Alan Partridge

We Know Where You Live

Is It Bill Bailey?

Big Train

Character

Various Characters

Simon

Jools

Steve Bennett

[22] Various Roles

Various Roles

Episode:"Watership Alan"

Pegg in New York City

Notes

(1998–2002) Nominated—British Comedy Award for Best Male Comedy Award (also for Spaced)

2005

I Am Not an Animal

Top Gear

2007

Linda Green

Final Demand

2003

Look Around You

Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible

2002

Sex & Lies

2004

Band of Brothers

Top Gear

Good News Week

2011

Film

Robot Chicken

2009

A Quiet Word With ...

Episode:"Paranoia"

Segment:"Steal Away"

Episode:"Paedophilia Special"

Tim Bisley

Clerk

2008

The Sunday Night Project

Ray Purbbs

Black Books

Episode:"The Long Game"

Episode:"Health"

Comic Relief sketch

voice only

Weekly Australian comedy panel show (18 April episode)

[23] Series 9, Episode 4

Series 1

Episode:"Dark Side of the Moon"

[24] Australian conversation show, Series 1, Episode 5

Episode:"Curse of the Blood of the Lizard of Doom"

Episode:"Maths"

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Himself

Colin Taylor

Angus

Radio DJ

First Sergeant William Evans

Jay

Himself

Kieron the Cat

The Editor

Sleeping Queen's Guard

Spider-Plant Man

Handsome Man

Look Around You

Doctor Who

Doctor Who Confidential

Frank Matters

Himself

Himself (Guest Host)

Evan

Episodes:"Currahee" and "Day of Days"

Tube Tales

2001

Brass Eye

Justin Pope

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Narrator

Gerard Chote

Series 16, Episode 4

Episode:Series 8, Episode 2

Episode:"Manny Come Home"

Hippies

1999

2000

Spaced

Simon Pegg

(1999–2001) Co-written with Jessica Stevenson Nominated—BAFTA TV Situation Comedy Award Nominated—British Comedy Award for Best Male Comedy Award (also for Big Train)

Voice-over Cameo

Voice only

Segment:"Don't"

Dennis Doyle

Sidney Young

2001

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Year

1999

Run Fatboy Run

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

2008

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

William Burke

2004

Shaun of the Dead

2010

Co-written with Edgar Wright Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay Peter Sellers Award for Comedy Nominated—ALFS Award for British Screewriter of the Year Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated—Empire Award for Best British Actor Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Screenplay

2006

Mission: Impossible III

Land of the Dead

The Good Night

Grindhouse

2007

Notes

Mr. Nice

[25] [26] Shaun Riley

Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated—Scream Award for Best Ensemble

Odd

Gus

Paul

Photo Booth Zombie

Benji Dunn

Cannibal

Free Jimmy

Big Nothing

[27] Burke and Hare

Diary of the Dead

Announced

Post-production

Voice only Short film

Character

Deflated Husband

Reepicheep

Buck

The Parole Officer

Guest House Paradiso

Film

Cameo

Graeme Willy

Thompson

2012

[32] Star Trek 2

Scrat's Continental Crack-up

[31] The Adventures of Tintin

2011

[29] Paul

24 Hour Party People

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

2005

2002

Voice only Nominated—Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Co-written with Michael Ian Black

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Benji Dunn

Buck

Leading role

Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol

[33] A Fantastic Fear of Everything

[30] Co-written with Nick Frost

Wrote English script

Peter Cow

Paul Morley

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage [28] of the Dawn Treader

Hot Fuzz

Co-written with Edgar Wright Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actor

PC/Sergeant/Chief Inspector Nicholas Angel

2009

Star Trek

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Simon Pegg

Video games

References

Year

2010

2011

Game

Fable III

Spare Parts

Role

Ben Finn

Con-Rad

[1] http://www.peggster.net/ [2] Barratt, Nick (2 June 2007). "Family detective" (http:/ /www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/ 2007/06/02/nosplit/ftdetective102.xml).The Daily Telegraph(London). . Retrieved 23 May 2010. [3] "10 Questions for Simon Pegg" (http:/ /www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1846732,00.html).Time. 2 October 2008. . [4] Cadwalladr, Carole (4 February 2007). "A fair cop" (http:/ /film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2005313,00.html).The Guardian(London). . Retrieved 23 May 2010. [5] A fair cop (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2005306,00.html) observer.co.uk [6] "Pegg set for road trip flick" (http:/ /www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=130146&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=).Metro. 31 March 2008. . Retrieved 26 May 2009. [7] Setchfield, Nick (1 April 2009). "Simon Pegg Exclusive" (http:/ /www.sfx.co.uk/2009/04/01/simon_pegg_exclusive/).SFX. . Retrieved 26 May 2009. [8] Thomas, Archie (3 October 2008). "Brit List brings scripts to light" (http:/ /www.variety.com/article/VR1117993429. html?categoryid=2523&cs=1).Variety(Reed Business Information). . Retrieved 9 October 2008. [9] "Interview with Simon Pegg" (http:/ /news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7642129.stm).BBC Website. 1 October 2008. . Retrieved 1 October 2008. [10] "Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Do America" (http:/ /www.justpressplay.net/movies/movie-news/ 2006-simon-pegg-and-nick-frost-do-america.html). JustPressPlay.net. 20 September 2007. . Retrieved 3 January 2011. [11] Siegel, Tatiana (12 October 2007). "Simon Pegg to play Scotty in "Star Trek"" (http:/ /www.variety.com/article/VR1117973913. html?categoryid=13&cs=1). Variety. . Retrieved 11 October 2007. [12] Ennis, Garth (2007).The Boys Volume One: The Name of the Game (Introduction). The Boys. Dynamite Entertainment. [13] "Simon Pegg Replaces Bill Nighy as the Voice of Reepicheep" (http:/ /www.narniaweb.com/2010/06/ simon-pegg-replaces-bill-nighy-as-the-voice-of-reepicheep). . [14] "Simon Pegg Returns for Mission: Impossible 4" (http:/ /www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/18/ simon-pegg-returns-for-mission-impossible-4). . [15] "Simon Pegg and Wife Expecting First Child" (http:/ /celebrity-babies.com/2009/02/21/simon-pegg-and-wife-expecting-first-child/). People.com. 21 February 2009. . [16] Campos, Nicole (June 15, 2011). "Simon Pegg's New Autobiography: Well Done, Nerd!" (http:/ /blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/ 06/simon_pegg_book_interview.php).LA Weekly: p.a 2 (http:/ /blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/06/simon_pegg_book_interview. php?page=2). . Retrieved November 21, 2011. [17] "British Star Simon Pegg Welcomes a Baby Girl!" (http:/ /www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/ british-star-simon-pegg-welcomes-a-baby-girl-200967).Us Weekly. July 6, 2009. . [18] Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/simonpegg/status/5237803503845376) Simon Pegg's Twitter Feed [19] "Chris Martina—Martin + Paltrow Name Pegg As Godfather" (http:/ /www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/martin paltrow name pegg as godfather_1043099). Contactmusic.com. 9 September 2007. . Retrieved 3 January 2011. [20] "Simon Pegg Q&A: "If I don't get recognised, I say I'm in Coldplay"" (http:/ /coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=660). Coldplay.com. 29 October 2010. . Retrieved 3 January 2011. [21] "Actor Simon Pegg receives honorary university fellowship for contribution to arts" (http:/ /www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/ celebritynews/3549147/Actor-Simon-Pegg-receives-honorary-university-fellowship-for-contribution-to-arts. html).Daily Telegraph (London). 4 December 2008. . Retrieved 4 December 2008. [22] "We Know Where You Live" (http:/ /www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/w/weknowwhereyouli_7776760.shtml).BBC Comedy. . Retrieved 18 June 2007. [23] "Top Gear(Series 9, Episode 4)" (http://www.topgear.com/uk/tv-show/series-9/episode-4). BBC. . Retrieved 13 February 2011. [24] "A Quiet Word With Simon Pegg And Nick Frost" (http:/ /www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc1/201104/programs/ AC1063V006D2011-04-16T213338.htm).Official website. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. . Retrieved 1 August 2011. [25] http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004743/ [26] http://baict.wikia.com/wiki/Shaun_Riley [27] Simon Pegg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670408/) at the Internet Movie Database

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[28] "Voice of Reepicheep Recast Once Again as Simon Pegg" (http:/ /www.aslanscountry.com/2010/06/ voice-of-reepicheep-recast-once-again-as-simon-pegg). . [29]Paul(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092026/) at the Internet Movie Database [30] "The Official Website of Simon Pegg" (http:/ /www.peggster.net/). Peggster.net. 25 November 2010. . Retrieved 3 January 2011. [31]The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0983193/) at the Internet Movie Database [32]Untitled Star Trek Sequel(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1408101/) at the Internet Movie Database [33] Grose, Jessica. "Questions for Simon Pegg. The star of Shaun of the Dead talks about his new book, Nerd Do Well, and his romance with a girl called Meredith Catsanus." (http://www.slate.com/id/2296987/pagenum/all/#correct).Slate. .

External links

Official website (http://www.peggster.net/) Simon Pegg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm670408/) at the Internet Movie Database Simon Pegg (http://www.allrovi.com/name/p307202) at AllRovi

Simon Pegg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoryalpha:simon_pegg) at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki) Simon Pegg in Gloucestershire (http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2008/12/04/ simon_pegg_feature.shtml) BBC Radio Gloucestershire interview with Simon and John Beckingham (his father)–from the set ofRun Fatboy Run(http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2007/02/21/ rockley_with_simon_pegg_feature.shtml)