35 Facts About Simon Pegg

Simon John Pegg is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter.

Simon Pegg came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, directed by Edgar Wright.

Simon 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, Star Trek as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Simon Pegg provided the voice of Buck in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Collision Course, and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

Simon Pegg's parents divorced when he was seven, and he took on his stepfather's surname "Pegg" after his mother remarried.

Simon Pegg attended Castle Hill Primary School, Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School, and The King's School, Gloucester.

Simon Pegg moved to Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire when he was 16 and studied English literature and theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon College.

Simon Pegg 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".

Between 1998 and 2004, Simon Pegg was regularly featured on BBC Radio 4's The 99p Challenge.

Simon Pegg played various roles during the tour of Steve Coogan's 1998 live stage show The Man Who Thinks He's It.

Simon Pegg played mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha, the Strontium Dog, in a series of Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the character from British comic 2000 AD.

Simon Pegg appeared in Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio story Invaders From Mars as Don Chaney, and appeared in the Doctor Who television series, playing the Editor in the 2005 episode "The Long Game".

Simon Pegg narrated the first series of the "making-of" documentary series Doctor Who Confidential.

Simon Pegg reprised the role in three further Mission: Impossible sequel films: Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation, and Fallout.

The film is a police-action movie homage and stars Nick Frost, in which Simon Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a London policeman transferred to rural Sandford, a fictional village where grisly events take place.

In 2007, Simon Pegg starred in The Good Night and Run Fatboy Run directed by David Schwimmer and co-starring Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.

Simon Pegg received screenwriting credit for this, and voiced one of the main characters in the English-language version, which has an international range of actors including Woody Harrelson.

Simon 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.

In those films and in Spaced, Simon Pegg typically plays the leading hero while Frost plays the sidekick.

Simon Pegg played engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in Star Trek, the eleventh film in the Star Trek film series, released 8 May 2009.

Simon Pegg reprised the role in Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond, co-writing the latter.

Simon Pegg's likeness was used for the character of Wee Hughie in the comic book series The Boys; while this was done without Pegg's permission, he quickly became a fan of the title, and even wrote the introduction to the first bound volume.

Simon Pegg voiced Reepicheep, the heroic mouse in Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

In July 2014, Simon Pegg appeared on stage with Monty Python during their live show Monty Python Live held at the O2 Arena, London.

Simon Pegg was the special guest in their "Blackmail" sketch.

In 2014, Simon Pegg announced his support for the feminist campaign HeForShe.

In 2016, Simon Pegg spoke of having respect for Jeremy Corbyn and believing in Britain Stronger in Europe's ideas in relation to the EU.

In 2020, Simon Pegg signed an open letter calling for the wealthiest in society to pay more tax in order to help fight inequality.

Simon Pegg married his long-time girlfriend, music industry publicist Maureen McCann, in Glasgow on 23 July 2005.

Simon 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".

Simon Pegg is godfather to Joe, the son of actor and friend Martin Freeman.

Simon Pegg 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.

Simon Pegg attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and has remained sober since.

In May 2023 Simon Pegg was the invited guest of presenter Lauren Laverne on the long running BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs.

Simon Pegg was awarded an honorary fellowship by the University of Gloucestershire on 4 December 2008.