Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He came to public prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the sitcom Spaced, directed by Edgar Wright. He went on to co-write and star in the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy: Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013). He and frequent collaborator Nick Frost wrote and starred in the sci-fi film Paul (2011). Pegg is also known for his portrayal of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in all three films of the Star Trek reboot film series: Star Trek (2009), Into Darkness (2013), and Beyond (2016), and as the visual basis for Wee Hughie in the comic book The Boys (2006–2012; 2020), voicing the character in Diabolical (2022), and playing his father in The Boys from 2019 to 2024.
He first appeared as Benji Dunn in the film Mission: Impossible III (2006), the third installment in the Mission: Impossible film series, and went on to reprise the role in Ghost Protocol (2011), Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). He has lent his voice to the animated character Buck in the Ice Age film series, namely Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Scrat's Continental Crack-up (2011), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022), the latter of which made him the only cast member to reprise a role from previous films.
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Are you a part of Season 2 of The Boys, at all? PEGG: No. They got me out of the way. I did my little bit. It was very fun to do that show. I was pleased to be a part of it.
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- ^ "Simon Pegg: Mitigating the 'Black Dog', The Tom Cruise Effect & Shaun of the Dead Brotherhood". Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2024 – via YouTube.
- ^ Hogwarts Legacy (11 January 2023). "'Please welcome @simonpegg as Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black. #HogwartsLegacy'". Twitter. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
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