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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.
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Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, director, producer and screenwriter. His best known roles are Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul and the Ice Age franchise. He is also known for working with Nick Frost.
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Simon Pegg (born February 14, 1970, Gloucester, England) English actor, writer, and comedian best known for his nerdy character roles in the Star Trek films of the early 2000s, the Mission Impossible film series, and collaborations with director Edgar Wright on the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy: Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The ...
Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham in Gloucester, England, to jazz musician and salesman John Beckingham and Gillian (née Smith) Beckingham, a civil servant and theater troupe member. His parents divorced when he was seven years old, and his mother remarried shoe salesman Richard Pegg; Simon subsequently adopted his stepfather’s surname. Pegg beca...
In 1995 Pegg appeared on television for the first time, in the short-lived sketch comedy series Six Pairs of Pants, for which he was also a writer. It was his first collaboration with Jessica Hynes, a fellow comedian. The following year he performed in three episodes of the British stand-up and sketch comedy series Saturday Live. In 1996 Pegg and Hynes first collaborated with director Wright on the TV miniseries Asylum, a dark comedy that follows the adventures of patients in a psychiatric hospital where the competency of the staff is suspect. Wright directed the episodes while Pegg and Hynes performed, and all three of them contributed to the writing. Through the rest of the 1990s, Pegg continued to appear on television in various roles, including his portrayal of the accident-prone character Jools in the family sitcom Faith in the Future (1996–98) and his work in the sketch comedy show We Know Where You Live (1997).
He first rose to prominence as one of the lead characters in the British sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which he developed with Hynes. Pegg and Hynes costarred in the series, which was directed by Wright and has become a cult classic in Britain in the years since its release. The show focused on the escapades of aspiring artist Tim Bisley (Pegg) and struggling writer Daisy Steiner (Hynes) after they grift their way into renting a “couples only” apartment together as relative strangers. Pegg’s real-life best friend, actor Nick Frost, appeared in the series as Bisley’s best friend, Mike Watt. Frost would go on to perform in many of Pegg’s projects, often in the best friend role. Overlapping with Spaced, Pegg appeared on the sketch comedy show Big Train (1998–2002), for which he also wrote some material.
Pegg and Wright collaborated again for the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, with Wright again directing and Pegg starring and cowriting the script. Frost, who had in part helped inspire the story—a “romantic zombie comedy” (also called a “rom-zom-com”) about friends who attempt to weather a zombie apocalypse from their local pub—again played the best friend character. Pegg, Wright, and Frost adopted a similar formula for the buddy-cop slasher comedy Hot Fuzz and the science-fiction comedy The World’s End, films that are grouped with Shaun of the Dead in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, named after a British ice cream treat. Wright later recalled on Twitter (now known as X) that because the dessert had been featured in Shaun of the Dead, the crew had been given free Cornettos at the film’s after-party. Pegg and Wright had decided they should mention Cornettos again in their next film in hopes of receiving free treats. Although this ploy proved unsuccessful, they were able to secure the sweets after filming The World’s End.
In between the Cornetto films, Pegg and Frost wrote and starred in Paul (2011), a film about friends who encounter an extraterrestrial being during a road trip. Pegg also teamed up with fellow comedian Michael Ian Black to write the romantic comedy Run Fatboy Run (2007), directed by David Schwimmer, which Pegg also starred in.
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In 2005 Pegg married publicist Maureen McCann, with Frost serving as his best man. The couple has one child together. In addition to his on-screen work, Pegg published an autobiography, Nerd Do Well, in 2010.
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Biography. Simon at 18 years old. Simon Pegg co-wrote and co-starred (as Tim Bisley) in the worldwide acclaimed, cult television show Spaced. After two groundbreaking seasons, he moved on to develop and co-write, with Edgar Wright, the critically praised Shaun of the Dead, starring as the eponymous hero, Shaun.
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Sep 18, 2019 · From his childhood obsession with science fiction, his enduring friendship with Nick Frost, and his forays into stand-up comedy which began with his regular Monday morning slot in front of his twelve-year-old classmates, actor/comedian/writer/self-proclaimed supergeek Simon Pegg has always had a dangerous case of the funnies.
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