Simon Pegg
Born February 14, 1970 (Age: 56)
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Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Biography
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). 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). He starred as Benji Dunn in six Mission: Impossible films, beginning with Mission: Impossible III (2006) and ending with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). He has also provided the voice of Buck in the Ice Age film series (2009–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon Pegg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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).
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). He starred as Benji Dunn in six Mission: Impossible films, beginning with Mission: Impossible III (2006) and ending with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). He has also provided the voice of Buck in the Ice Age film series (2009–present).
Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon Pegg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Ice Age: Boiling Point
2027
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as Buck (voice)
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Age: 56
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
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as Benji Dunn
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Age: 55
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
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as Benji Dunn
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Age: 53
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
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as Self
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Age: 53
The Sparks Brothers
2021
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as John Lennon (voice)
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Age: 51
Love, Antosha
2019
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as Self
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Age: 49
Slaughterhouse Rulez
2018
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as Meredith Houseman
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Age: 48
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
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as Benji Dunn
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Age: 48
Terminal
2018
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as Bill
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Age: 48
Ready Player One
2018
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as Curator / Ogden Morrow
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Age: 48
Star Trek Beyond
2016
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as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
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Age: 46
Ice Age: Collision Course
2016
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as Buck (voice)
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Age: 46
Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
2016
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as Self
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Age: 46
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
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as Unkar Plutt
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Age: 45
Robots
2015
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as Narrator
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Age: 45
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015
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as Benji Dunn
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Age: 45
Man Up
2015
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as Jack
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Age: 45
Absolutely Anything
2015
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as Neil Clarke
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Age: 44
The Boxtrolls
2014
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as Herbert Trubshaw (voice)
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Age: 44
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
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as Hector
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Age: 44
The World's End
2013
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as Gary King
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Age: 43
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013
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as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
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Age: 43
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
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as
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Age: 42
Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012
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as Buck (voice)
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Age: 42
A Fantastic Fear of Everything
2012
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as Jack
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Age: 42
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011
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as Benji
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Age: 41
The Adventures of Tintin
2011
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as Thompson (voice)
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Age: 41
Paul
2011
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as Graeme Willy
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Age: 41
Star Wars Spoofs
2011
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as Himself
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Age: 40
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
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as Reepicheep (Voice)
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Age: 40
Burke & Hare
2010
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as William Burke
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Age: 40
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009
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as Buck (voice)
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Age: 39
Star Trek
2009
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as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
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Age: 39
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
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as Sidney Young
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Age: 38
Run Fatboy Run
2007
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as Dennis
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Age: 37
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007
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as Self
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Age: 37
Diary of the Dead
2007
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as Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 37
Hot Fuzz
2007
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as Nicholas Angel
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Age: 37
The Good Night
2007
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as Paul
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Age: 36
Mission: Impossible III
2006
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as Benji
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Age: 36
When Shaun Met George
2005
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as Self
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Age: 35
Land of the Dead
2005
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as Photo Booth Zombie
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Age: 35
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
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as Peter Cow
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Age: 35
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004
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as Self
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Age: 34
Shaun of the Dead
2004
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as Shaun
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Age: 34
24 Hour Party People
2002
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as Journalist
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Age: 31