In 2004, Pegg guest-starred in a spin-off of the television show Danger! 50,000 Volts! called Danger! 50,000 Zombies!, in which he played a zombie-hunter named Dr. Romero's invitation, Pegg and Wright made cameo appearances in Romero's zombie film, Land of the Dead. The experience of making a Spaced fantasy sequence featuring zombies led to Pegg and Wright co-writing the "romantic zombie comedy" film Shaun of the Dead, released in April 2004, in which Pegg also starred. For his performance in this series, Pegg was nominated for a British Comedy Award as Best Male Comedy Newcomer. The series was directed by Edgar Wright, with whom Pegg and Stevenson had previously worked on Asylum, and Pegg wrote the character of Mike Watt specifically for his friend Nick Frost. In 1999, he created and co-wrote the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced with Jessica Stevenson. Pegg at a premiere for Star Trek in April 2009 He played various roles during the tour of Steve Coogan's 1998 live stage show The Man Who Thinks He's It. Pegg's other credits include appearances in the World War II mini-series Band of Brothers the television comedies Black Books, Brass Eye and I'm Alan Partridge and the films The Parole Officer, 24 Hour Party People, and Guest House Paradiso. Between 19, Pegg was regularly featured on BBC Radio 4's The 99p Challenge. Pegg's early appearances in TV series and films include Six Pairs of Pants ( Meridian & Anglia, 1995), Asylum, Faith in the Future, Big Train and Hippies. There was a time when I was younger where I just wanted to be at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre." Career Pegg in New York City, July 2008 But, it wasn't the only thing I ever wanted to do. Then, I drifted into comedy acting through doing stand-up, and that was something that I really enjoyed. "When I graduated from university where I studied theater, film and television, I went into stand-up because comedy was something I enjoyed but also because it offered me a certain autonomy that I wouldn't have if I was sitting and waiting for the phone to ring as an actor. While there, he performed as a member of a comedy troupe called " David Icke and the Orphans of Jesus", alongside David Walliams, Dominik Diamond, and Jason Bradbury. He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1991 with a BA in theatre, film, and television, titling his undergraduate thesis "A Marxist overview of popular 1970s cinema and hegemonic discourses". Pegg moved to Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire when he was 16 and studied English literature and theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon College. He attended Castle Hill Primary School, Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School, and The King's School, Gloucester. His brother, Mike (who starred in the 2020 film The Host ), still uses Beckingham as his surname. His parents divorced when he was seven, and he took on his stepfather's surname "Pegg" after his mother remarried. Simon John Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham on 14 February 1970 in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, the son of Gillian Rosemary (née Smith), a former civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman. 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). He currently stars as Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible film series (2006–present), and he voiced Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black in the computer game Hogwarts Legacy (2023). 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). Pegg and Frost also wrote and starred in the sci-fi comedy film Paul (2011). 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. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter.
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