Simon Pegg

Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. Pegg is best known for having co-written and starred in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy of films, consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), and the comedy series Spaced (1999–2001), all of them directed by his friend Edgar Wright. He also portrayed Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible film series, Montgomery Scott in Star Trek (2009) and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Thompson in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011). Much of his work has been in collaboration with some combination of Wright, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, and Dylan Moran.

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Simon Pegg
Alias (AKA)Beckingham Simon John
Birth dateFebruary 14, 1970
Birth nameSimon John Beckingham
Birth place
Brockworth Gloucestershire
Education
University of Bristol
Education
Millbrook Academy

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