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).
Simon John Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham[1][2] on 14 February 1970[3] in Brockworth, Gloucestershire,[4][5] the son of Gillian Rosemary (née Smith), a former civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman.[6] His parents divorced when he was seven, and he took on his stepfather's surname "Pegg" after his mother remarried.[1][2] His brother, Mike (who starred in the 2020 film The Host[7]), still uses Beckingham as his surname. He attended Castle Hill Primary School,[8]Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School,[8] and The King's School, Gloucester.[9]
"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. Then, I drifted into comedy acting through doing stand-up, and that was something that I really enjoyed. But, it wasn't the only thing I ever wanted to do. There was a time when I was younger where I just wanted to be at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre."[11]
In 1999, he created and co-wrote the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced with Jessica Stevenson. 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.[8] For his performance in this series, Pegg was nominated for a British Comedy Award as Best Male Comedy Newcomer.[16] 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.[8] At George A. Romero's invitation, Pegg and Wright made cameo appearances in Romero's zombie film, Land of the Dead.[8] 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. Fell.
Upon completion of Shaun of the Dead, Pegg was questioned as to whether he would be abandoning the British film industry for Hollywood, and he replied, "It's not like we're going to go away and do, I don't know, Mission: Impossible III", picking the title of an imaginary blockbuster. When the film Mission: Impossible III was subsequently made, Pegg appeared in it as Benji Dunn, an IMF technician who assists Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt.[2] He has reprised the role in four further Mission: Impossible sequel films: Ghost Protocol (2011), Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), and Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), and will appear in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in 2025.[19]
In 2006, he played Gus in Big Nothing alongside David Schwimmer.[20] The same year, Pegg and Wright completed their second film, Hot Fuzz, released in February 2007. The film is a police-action movie homage and also stars Nick Frost, in which Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a London policeman transferred to rural Sandford, a fictional village where grisly events take place.[21] In 2007, Pegg starred in The Good Night (directed by Jake Paltrow) and Run Fatboy Run directed by David Schwimmer and co-starring Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria. In 2008, he wrote the dialogue for an English language re-release of the cult 2006 animated Norwegian film, Free Jimmy. Pegg received screenwriting credit for this, and also voiced one of the main characters in the English-language version, which has an international range of actors including Woody Harrelson.
Pegg co-wrote the script for a film called Paul, about two young men who encounter a comedic extraterrestrial alien during a road trip across the US.[22][23] The completed script appeared on the 2008 "Brit List", a film-industry-compiled survey of the best unproduced British screenplays, inspired by the American Black List.[24] In those films and in Spaced, Pegg typically plays the leading hero while Frost plays the sidekick. However Paul reverses this dynamic.[25] The film was released in 2011.[26]
"I've now done the ultimate nerd hat trick – Doctor Who, Star Wars and Star Trek."
In 2020, Pegg signed an open letter calling for the wealthiest in society to pay more tax in order to help fight inequality.[41]
Pegg has been an activist for Greenpeace since 2021, protesting overfishing and supporting their "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow" campaign.[42][43]
Pegg is close friends with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, and appears as a violin-playing Elvis impersonator in the video for Coldplay's 2010 single "Christmas Lights".[51] Along with Jonny Buckland, Pegg is godfather to Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple.[52] In return, Martin is godfather to Pegg's daughter.[53] In a video interview with British GQ magazine in July 2018, Pegg stated that his daughter has sung backing vocals for Coldplay onstage at the Glastonbury Festival.[54] Pegg is also godfather to the son of actor and friend Martin Freeman.[55] Pegg's parents and sister briefly appeared in Spaced, while his mother appeared in both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
In a July 2018 interview with The Guardian, Pegg spoke about his battle with depression and alcoholism, and how rehab helped him recover from the latter. He stated: "When I watch Mission: Impossible III, I can see where I was then, which was fairly lost, and unhappy, and an alcoholic [...] I'm not ashamed of what happened. And I think if anyone finds any relationship to it, then it might motivate them to get well. But I am not proud of it, either – I don't think it's cool, like I was Mr. Rock 'n' Roll, blackout and all that shit. It wasn't, it was just terrible."[56] Pegg checked into a rehab facility shortly before production of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He hid his recovery from the tabloids through court orders, although some journalists went so far as to call the clinic pretending to be his mother. Pegg attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and has remained sober since.[56]
^ abcdCadwalladr, Carole (4 February 2007). "A fair cop". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ abNorman, Neil (4 February 2007). "Simon Pegg: A geek made good". The Independent. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
^Lee, Ann (12 July 2016). "Star Trek Beyond actor Simon Pegg has this piece of leadership advice for Theresa May". metro.co.uk. Northcliffe House, Kensington High Street: Daily Mail and General Trust plc. Archived from the original on 16 July 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2022. Lead for the people, don't forget anybody. Don't just protect the people who are well off, look after everybody. There are a lot of people in this country who need to be looked after, who are so often forgotten.
^Freeman, Martin; Slevin, Dan (8 July 2013). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Q&A". Crazy for Martin Freeman. blogspot.co.uk. Archived from the original(Interview transcript) on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^ abJonze, Tim (9 July 2018). "Simon Pegg: 'I was lost, unhappy and an alcoholic'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2022. And then he sits down to talk about depression. And alcoholism. And how he spent years trying to hide it, and how he nearly lost everything, and how he is lucky to even be alive. "It was awful, terrible," he says. "It owned me." Suddenly, this roof terrace in east London doesn't seem so sunny.
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