Happy Birthday Simon Pegg! He 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. Next, he starred as Scotty in Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013). Pegg 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 co-wrote and returned as Scotty in Star Trek: Beyond (2016). He portrayed Ogden Morrow, 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 of course played the father of Hughie, the character based on his likeness in the comic, in The Boys. He is currently on the Amazon Prime series Truth Seekers which he has co-created and stars in with Nick Frost. Happy Birthday Simon Pegg!
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