Simon Pegg

Born:14. února 1970

Place of Birth:Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Known For:Acting

Biography

Simon Pegg, born Simon John Pegg on February 14, 1970, is a multi-talented English actor, comedian, and screenwriter. His career skyrocketed in the UK with the creation of the beloved Channel 4 sitcom "Spaced" from 1999 to 2001, which he co-created with the talented Edgar Wright. This collaboration led to the creation of iconic films like "Shaun of the Dead" (2004), "Hot Fuzz" (2007), and "The World's End" (2013), forming the renowned Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy.

Pegg's versatility and comedic timing have earned him a special place in the hearts of fans worldwide. His collaborations with Edgar Wright and Nick Frost have resulted in unforgettable cinematic experiences that seamlessly blend humor with thrilling storytelling. The chemistry between Pegg and Frost is undeniable, making them a dynamic duo on screen.

In addition to his work in comedy, Pegg has ventured into the realm of science fiction, leaving an indelible mark on iconic franchises. From his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the "Star Trek" series to his portrayal of Benji Dunn in the "Mission: Impossible" films, Pegg has showcased his range as an actor. His ability to inhabit diverse characters with charm and wit has solidified his status as a fan-favorite in the realms of nerd culture.

Beyond his on-screen performances, Pegg has also lent his voice to animated films, bringing memorable characters to life with his distinctive voice. His portrayal of Buck in the "Ice Age" franchise added depth and humor to the beloved series, showcasing his talent in both live-action and animated projects.

Simon Pegg's contributions to the entertainment industry have not gone unnoticed, with critics and audiences alike praising his work ethic and dedication to his craft. His ability to seamlessly transition between genres while maintaining his unique comedic flair sets him apart as a versatile and accomplished performer.

As a screenwriter, Pegg has demonstrated his storytelling prowess, crafting narratives that resonate with audiences on a profound level. His collaborations with Edgar Wright have resulted in films that have achieved cult status, cementing his legacy in the world of cinema.

With a career spanning decades, Simon Pegg continues to captivate audiences with his magnetic on-screen presence and infectious humor. His passion for storytelling and commitment to his characters shine through in every role he undertakes, making him a true powerhouse in the entertainment industry.

Simon Pegg's legacy as an actor, comedian, and screenwriter is a testament to his talent and dedication to his craft. Whether he's battling aliens in a sci-fi epic or delivering laugh-out-loud moments in a comedy, Pegg's versatility and charisma have made him a beloved figure in film and television.

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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Benji Dunn

2023

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Benji Dunn

2018

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Benji

2011

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Mission: Impossible III

Benji

2006

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Benji Dunn

2015

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.

Ready Player One

Curator / Ogden Morrow

2018

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Unkar Plutt

2015

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Luck

Bob (voice)

2022

Suddenly finding herself in the never-before-seen Land of Luck, the unluckiest person in the world must unite with the magical creatures there to turn her luck around.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Buck (voice)

2009

Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Buck (voice)

2012

Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.

Paul

Graeme Willy

2011

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

Star Trek Into Darkness

Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott

2013

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun

2004

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

Star Trek

Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott

2009

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild

Buck (voice)

2022

The fearless one-eyed weasel Buck teams up with mischievous possum brothers Crash & Eddie as they head off on a new adventure into Buck's home: The Dinosaur World.

Ice Age: Collision Course

Buck (voice)

2016

Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and locations.

The Adventures of Tintin

Thompson (voice)

2011

Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.

The Cloverfield Paradox

Radio Voice

2018

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Reepicheep (Voice)

2010

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.

Inheritance

Morgan Warner

2020

The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.

Star Trek Beyond

Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott

2016

The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

The World's End

Gary King

2013

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

Absolutely Anything

Neil Clarke

2015

Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.

Man Up

Jack

2015

A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.

Land of the Dead

Photo Booth Zombie

2005

The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.

Terminal

Bill

2018

In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead of night, as their lives intertwine at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind who is hell-bent on revenge.

24 Hour Party People

Journalist

2002

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

Diary of the Dead

Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)

2007

A terrified group of college film students record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival.

Burke & Hare

William Burke

2010

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

For the Love of Spock

Self

2016

The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son: Adam.

Slaughterhouse Rulez

Meredith Houseman

2018

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.

The Reckoning

Gaoler

2004

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.

Kill Me Three Times

Charlie Wolfe

2015

While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

Big Nothing

Gus

2006

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Sidney Young

2008

Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Hector

2014

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

Room on the Broom

Narrator (voice)

2012

Animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The story of a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her cat. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone. A magical tale about friendship and family from Magic Light Pictures, the producers of the hugely successful The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child.

Produkce

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Thanks

2015

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Paul

Writer

2011

Shaun of the Dead

Writer

2004

Star Trek Beyond

Writer

2016

The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

The World's End

Executive Producer

2013

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

Man Up

Executive Producer

2015

Diary of the Dead

Thanks

2007

A terrified group of college film students record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival.

Slaughterhouse Rulez

Executive Producer

2018

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.