Happy Birthday Simon Pegg!

Happy Birthday and Valentine’s Day Simon Pegg! Pegg started his collaboration with Edgar Wright with the brilliant comedy, Spaced, a perfect series about Tim Bisley thrown out by his girlfriend and pretending to be married with Jessica Haynes' flatmate!, the geekiest show of all!  Then, he was in 2004's Shaun of the Dead, directed by Edgar Wright, the best zombie movie that is funny and also stands as an energetic horror movie!  Pegg played the Editor in the Doctor Who episode "The Long Game " (2005).  He moved into action movies with Mission Impossible III (2006) as tech wizard Benji Dunn.  He scored as Nicholas Angel in Hot Fuzz (2007), a send up of cop action movies by Edgar Wright.  Then, he starred and wrote the screenplay for the comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run (2007).  Another of his signature parts came with JJ Abrams' Star Trek (2009) in the Kelvin timeline where he played Scotty now paired with his assistant Keenster.  He wrote about his life and films in his autobiography Nerd Do Well (2009).  Simon Pegg also ventured into fantasy with the voice of Reepicheep in The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010).  

Then, he voiced Thompson, the detective who works with Nick Frost’s Thomson in the animated The Adventures of Tintin (2011). He co-wrote and starred along with Nick Frost in the extraterrestrial comedy Paul (2011).  Pegg returned as Benji Dunn in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) directed by Brad Bird.  Next, Simon Pegg entered the Star Wars Universe voicing Dengar in the “Bounty” (2012) episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.  He voiced the weasel, Buck, in Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012).  Next, Pegg starred as Scotty in Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013).  Pegg returned as Buck the weasel in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2013).  He finished the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy with Edgar Wright in the sci fi comedy The World’s End (2013).  Pegg voiced Hebert Trubshaw in the Laika animated movie The Boxtrolls (2014).  He returned as Benji Dunn in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015).  Pegg was in full costume as Unkar Plutt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2016).  Then, he co-wrote and returned as Scotty in Star Trek: Beyond (2016).  Last year, he portrayed Ogden Morrow, the co-creator of the OASIS, in Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel.  Benji Dunn appeared in Mission: Impossible: Fallout (2018) played by Pegg.  He is currently working on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.  Happy Birthday Simon Pegg!   

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