Overview
Simon Pegg
Known For
Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
10 News First takes you behind the scenes on the...
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
After escaping a calamitous train crash, Ethan realizes The Entity...
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
In 1935, Hungarian-American para-psychologist Nandor Fodor began his investigation of...
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most...
Tom Cruise: Impossible Missions
The stories behind the most memorable stunts from the film...
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
The fearless one-eyed weasel Buck teams up with mischievous possum...
Biography
Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He and Wright co-wrote the films Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), known collectively as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, all of which saw Wright directing and Pegg starring alongside Nick Frost. Pegg and Frost also wrote and starred in the sci-fi comedy film Paul (2011). Pegg is one of the few performers to have achieved what Radio Times calls the "Holy Grail of Nerd-dom", having played popular supporting characters in Doctor Who (2005), Star Trek as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (2009–2016), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He stars as Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible film series (2006–present). He provided the voice of Buck in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Collision Course(2016), and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article about Simon Pegg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.