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MaleFirst Mens Magazine - Found Jun. 30, 2009 Simon Pegg will never move to the US. The 'Star Trek' actor thinks Hollywood is a 'very friendly place' but insists his heart belongs in London. Simon Pegg: I won't move to LA - Metro.co.uk Simon Pegg will stay in UK - NZCity Simon Pegg Will Stay In Uk - AOL Canada Explore All |
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Flicks for tykes, tweens and kids at heart
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Simon Pegg Biography
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Simon Pegg
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| Simon Pegg | |
Pegg with Spaced co-star Jessica Hynes in the background, 2008 |
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| Born | Simon John Beckingham 14 February 1970 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England |
|---|---|
| Other name(s) | Dr. Russel Fell/The Fresh Pegg |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, writer, producer, singer, director |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Spouse(s) | Maureen McCann (2005–present) |
Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and director. He is best known for his starring roles in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Run Fatboy Run, the comedy series Spaced and his recent portrayal of Scotty in Star Trek. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, Dylan Moran and Edgar Wright. Pegg has a close friendship with American actor David Schwimmer. The two have worked together in Band of Brothers, Big Nothing and Run Fatboy Run. His likeness was also 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.1
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Biography
Early life
Pegg was born in Brockworth, Gloucester, England, the son of Gillian Rosemary (née Smith), a civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman.2 His parents divorced when he was seven and he took on the surname "Pegg" after his mother re-married.34 He attended many schools including Castle Hill Primary School and Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School and later Stratford-upon-Avon College to study English Literature and Performance Studies. Pegg studied drama at the University of Bristol and wrote his undergraduate thesis on "A Marxist overview of popular Seventies cinema and hegemonic discourses".4
Career
In 1993 he moved to London and performed on the stand-up comedy circuit. In 1995 he took his acclaimed one-man show to the Edinburgh Festival, which led to his being invited to perform at festivals in Adelaide and Melbourne in Australia and Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in New Zealand, which he did in 1996 and 1997. His work as a stand up attracted the attention of several TV producers, leading to appearances in Asylum, Six Pairs of Pants, Faith in the Future, Big Train and Hippies. From 1998 to 2004, Pegg regularly featured on BBC Radio 4's The 99p Challenge. In 1999, he created and co-wrote the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced with Jessica Stevenson. For this project Pegg brought in Nick Frost, his best friend. For his performance in this series, Pegg was nominated for a British Comedy Award as Best Male Comedy Newcomer. Pegg co-wrote (with Spaced director Edgar Wright) and starred in the "romantic zombie comedy" film (or "RomZomCom", also "Zomedy" and "Romantic Zomedy") Shaun of the Dead, released in April 2004. At George A. Romero's invitation, Pegg and Wright made cameo appearances in Romero's film, Land of the Dead. In 2004 Pegg also starred in a spin-off of the television show Danger! 50,000 Volts! called Danger! 50,000 Zombies!, in which he played a zombie hunter named Dr. Russel Fell.
Pegg's other credits include the World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, guest appearances on Black Books, Brass Eye Special, I'm Alan Partridge, The Parole Officer and in the Factory Records story 24 Hour Party People. He also played the 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 and featured in Guest House Paradiso, a film based on the sitcom Bottom.
Pegg appeared in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio story Invaders From Mars as Don Chaney, and portrayed the Editor in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Long Game". He also narrated the first series of the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential.
Upon completion of Shaun of the Dead, Pegg was questioned on whether he would be abandoning the British film industry for bigger and better things, to which he replied "It's not like I'm going to run off and do Mission: Impossible III!" He then promptly went on to do just that, playing Benji Dunn, an I.M.F. technician who assists Tom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt.5 In 2006 he played an American character, Gus, in Big Nothing alongside David Schwimmer.
In 2006, Pegg and Wright completed their second film, Hot Fuzz, released in February 2007. The film is a police-action movie homage and also stars Nick Frost. Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a London policeman who is transferred to rural Sandford, where grisly events take place.
In 2007, Pegg starred in The Good Night (directed by Jake Paltrow) and Run Fatboy Run directed by David Schwimmer and co-starring Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria.
Pegg is co-writing and starring with Nick Frost in an upcoming film entitled Paul, with production expected to begin in June 2009. The plot revolves around characters played by Pegg and Frost road tripping across America.67 Pegg also announced that he and Wright had the idea for "the concluding part in what we are calling our 'Blood and Ice Cream' trilogy" (the first two being Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz). It is provisionally called The World Ends.8 In those films and in Spaced, Pegg typically plays the leading hero while Frost plays the sidekick. However, he has revealed that Paul will reverse this dynamic. Pegg has also stated that Wright will not direct, Paul not being part of their 'Blood and Ice Cream' trilogy.9 The completed script appeared on the 2008 Black List, a film-industry-compiled list of the best unproduced screenplays. Paul received two votes.10
Pegg played engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the newest Star Trek film,11 released 8 May 2009. He wore a kilt to the film's United Kingdom premiere,12 at the Empire Leicester Square theatre. He told Jo Russell's show on Absolute Radio that he is waiting for a Scotty action figure to add to his collection of Simon Pegg action figures from Dr Who, Hot Fuzz, and Shaun of the Dead.
Personal life
Pegg married Maureen McCann, on 23 July 2005 in Glasgow. Nick Frost was the best man at his wedding. The couple currently reside in Finsbury Park,13 London - where Shaun of the Dead was also filmed. On 21st February 2009, Pegg announced his wife was five months pregnant with the couple's first child. The gender is unknown and it is due sometime in early July 2009..14
Along with Jonny Buckland, Pegg is godfather to close friends Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple.15 Pegg's parents and sister briefly appeared in Spaced while his mother alone appeared in both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
He has sectoral heterochromia, where his eyes are blue-grey yet a portion of his right eye is brown. His favorite film is Raising Arizona.
Pegg was awarded an honorary fellowship by the University of Gloucestershire on 4 December 2008.16
Credits
Television
| Year | Programme | Character | Notes |
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| 1995 | Six Pairs of Pants | Various Characters | |
| 1996 | Asylum | Simon | |
| Faith in the Future | Jools | ||
| 1997 | I'm Alan Partridge | Steve Bennett | Episode: "Watership Alan" |
| We Know Where You Live | Various Roles17 | ||
| 1998 | Is It Bill Bailey? | Various Roles | |
| Big Train | Various Roles | (1998-2002) | |
| 1999 | Spaced | Tim Bisley | (1999-2001) Co-written with Jessica Stevenson |
| Tube Tales | Clerk | Segment: "Steal Away" | |
| Hippies | Ray Purbbs | ||
| 2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Justin Pope | Episode: "Paranoia" |
| 2001 | Brass Eye | Gerard Chote | Episode: "Paedophilia Special" |
| Band of Brothers | Sergeant Major William Evans | Episodes: "Currahee" and "Day of Days" | |
| Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible | Angus | Episode: "Curse of the Blood of the Lizard of Doom" | |
| 2002 | Look Around You | Sleeping Queen's Guard | Episode: "Maths" |
| Linda Green | Jay | Episode: "Dark Side of the Moon" | |
| 2003 | Final Demand | Colin Taylor | |
| 2004 | Sex & Lies | Radio DJ | |
| Black Books | Evan | Episode: "Manny Come Home" | |
| I Am Not an Animal | Kieron the Cat | ||
| 2005 | Look Around You | Handsome Man | Episode: "Health" |
| Spider-Plant Man | Frank Matters | Comic Relief sketch | |
| Doctor Who | The Editor | Episode: "The Long Game" | |
| Doctor Who Confidential | Narrator | Series 1 | |
| 2008 | The Sunday Night Project | Himself (Guest Host) | Episode: Series 8, Episode 2 |
Film
| Year | Film | Character | Notes |
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| 1999 | Guest House Paradiso | Mr. Nice | |
| 2001 | The Parole Officer | Deflated Husband | |
| 2002 | 24 Hour Party People | Paul Morley | |
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead | Shaun | Co-written with Edgar Wright |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Peter Cow | |
| Land of the Dead | Photo Booth Zombie | ||
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Benji Dunn | |
| Big Nothing | Gus | ||
| Free Jimmy | Odd | Wrote English script | |
| 2007 | Grindhouse | Cannibal | Segment: "Don't" |
| The Good Night | Paul | ||
| Hot Fuzz | Sergeant Nicholas Angel | Co-written with Edgar Wright | |
| Run Fatboy Run | Dennis Doyle | Co-written with Michael Ian Black | |
| Diary of the Dead | Voice-over Cameo | ||
| 2008 | How to Lose Friends and Alienate People | Sidney Young | |
| 2009 | Star Trek | Montgomery "Scotty" Scott | |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Buck | Voice only | |
| 2010 | Paul18 | Graham | Co-writing with Nick Frost19 |
| The World's End | N/A | Co-writing with Edgar Wright | |
| 2011 | The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn | Thomson |
References
- ^ Ennis, Garth (2007). The The Boys Volume One: The Name of the Game (Introduction). The Boys. Dynamite Entertainment.
- ^ Family detective - Telegraph
- ^ 10 Questions for Simon Pegg
- ^ a b A fair cop | Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film
- ^ A fair cop observer.co.uk
- ^ "Pegg set for road trip flick". Metro. 31 March 2008. http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=130146&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=. Retrieved on 2009-05-26.
- ^ Setchfield, Nick (1 April 2009). "Simon Pegg Exclusive". SFX. http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=simon_pegg_exclusive.
- ^ "Interview with Simon Pegg". BBC Website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7642129.stm. Retrieved on 2008-10-01.
- ^ "Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Do America". JustPressPlay.net. 2007-09-21. http://www.justpressplay.net/movies/paul/news/simon-pegg-and-nick-frost-do-america.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
- ^ Thomas, Archie (2008-10-03). "Brit List brings scripts to light". Variety (Reed Business Information). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993429.html?categoryid=2523&cs=1. Retrieved on 2008-10-09.
- ^ "Simon Pegg to play Scotty in "Star Trek"". Variety. 2007-10-12. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973913.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved on 2007-10-11.
- ^ "Photo Gallery: "Star Trek" London Premiere". WCBS Newsradio 880. 2009-04-21. http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/4240571.php. Retrieved on 2009-04-21.
- ^ "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". Interview with Jay Leno. Retrieved on 2008-02-07.
- ^ Simon Pegg and Wife Expecting First Child Celebrity Baby Blog, 21 February 2009
- ^ Chris Martin - Martin + Paltrow Name Pegg As Godfather
- ^ "Actor Simon Pegg receives honorary university fellowship for contribution to arts". Daily Telegraph. 2008-12-04. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3549147/Actor-Simon-Pegg-receives-honorary-university-fellowship-for-contribution-to-arts.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-04.
- ^ "We Know Where You Live" (HTML). BBC Comedy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/w/weknowwhereyouli_7776760.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092026/
- ^ http://www.peggster.net/
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Simon Pegg |
- Peggster.net
- Simon's MySpace Blog
- Simon Pegg at the Internet Movie Database
- Simon Pegg in Gloucestershire
- Simon Pegg at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- Mark Kermode's review of Hot Fuzz on BBC Radio Five Live - includes Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright interview
- BBC Radio Gloucestershire interview with Simon and John Beckingham (his father) - from the set of "Run Fatboy Run"
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