Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born February 14, 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He came to public prominence in the UK as the co-creator (with Jessica Hynes) of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999 – 2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He went on to co-write and star in the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy: Shaun of the Dead (2004), with Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy, and Penelope Wilton; Hot Fuzz (2007), with Frost, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Olivia Coleman, and Paul Freeman; and The World’s End (2013), with Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike.
He and Frost wrote and starred in the sci-fi film Paul (2011), with Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Joe Lo Truglio, John Carroll Lynch, and Sigourney Weaver. He also co-wrote and starred in Run, Fatboy, Run (2007), with Moran, Thandiwe Newton, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort, and Hank Azaria.
Pegg is one of the few performers to have achieved what Radio Times calls “the Holy Grail of nerd-dom”, playing popular supporting characters in Doctor Who (2005), Star Trek as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (2009–2016), with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, and Anton Yelchin; and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), with Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow.
He’s also known for his role as Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible film series (2006–2025), collectively with Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor, Léa Seydoux, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Rolf Saxon, Nick Offerman, and Hannah Waddingham.
Other notable films in the 2000s include Big Nothing (2006), with David Schwimmer, Alice Eve, Jon Polito, Natascha McElhone, and Mimi Rogers; The Good Night (2007), with Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Danny DeVito, and Michael Gambon; How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), with Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Megan Fox, and Jeff Bridges; John Landis‘s Burke & Hare (2010), with Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, Hynes, Bill Bailey, and Tim Curry A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012), with Clare Higgins and Amara Karan; Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014), with Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, and Christopher Plummer.
Films in the mid to late 2010s to early 2020s Include Man Up (2015), with Lake Bell; Absolutely Anything (2015), with Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, with the voices of John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones (who also directed), Michael Palin, and Robin Williams; Steven Spielberg‘s Ready Player One (2018), with Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, and Mark Rylance; Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018), with Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, and Frost; Lost in Transmissions (2019), with Juno Temple and Alexandra Daddario; Inheritance (2020), with Lily Collins, Connie Nielsen, Chace Crawford, and Patrick Warburton; and Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023), with Minnie Driver and Christopher Lloyd.
He’s also known for voicing the character Buck in the Ice Age franchise (2009 – 2026), collectively with Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Chris Wedge, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Queen Latifah, Jane Lynch, Keke Palmer, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lopez, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Wanda Sykes, Alan Tudyk, Aziz Ansari, Vincent Tong, Aaron Harris, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Justina Machado.
Other animated voice roles include Free Jimmy (2006), with Woody Harrelson, Phil Daniels, Jay Simpson, Broadbent, James Cosmo, David Tennant, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss, Megan Dodds, Douglas Henshall, Kris Marshall, Emilia Fox, Samantha Morton, Kyle MacLachlan, and Lisa Maxwell; The Adventures of Tintin (2011), with Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Frost, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, and Cary Elwes; The Boxtrolls (2014), with Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Frost, Richard Ayoade, and Tracy Morgan; America: The Motion Picture (2021), with Channing Tatum, Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Munn, Bobby Moynihan, Judy Greer, Will Forte, Raoul Max Trujillo, Killer Mike, and Andy Samberg; and Luck (2022), with Eva Noblezada, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Flula Borg, Lil Rel Howery, Colin O’Donoghue, and John Ratzenberger.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Tube Tales (1999) – directed by Amy Jenkins, Stephen Hopkins, Menhaj Huda, Charles McDougall, Bob Hoskins, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Armando Iannucci, & Gaby Dellal – anthology
- Guest House Paradiso (1999) – directed by Adrian Edmondson
- The Parole Officer (2001) – directed by John Duigan
- 24 Hour Party People (2002) – directed by Michael Winterbottom
- The Reckoning (2002) – directed by John Duigan
- Final Demand (2003) – directed by Tom Vaughan – TV movie
- Sex & Lies (2004) – directed by Jeremy Lovering – TV movie
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)* – directed by Edgar Wright – also co-writer
- The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (2005) – directed by Steve Bendelack
- Land of the Dead (2005) – directed by George A. Romero – cameo
- Free Jimmy (2006) – directed by Christopher Nielsen – English dub – also writer of English dub
- Mission: Impossible III (2006) – directed by J.J. Abrams
- Big Nothing (2006) – directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
- The Good Night (2007) – directed by Jake Paltrow
- Hot Fuzz (2007)* – directed by Edgar Wright – also co-writer
- Run, Fat Boy, Run (2007) – directed by David Schwimmer – also co-writer
- Diary of the Dead (2007) – directed George A. Romero – uncredited voice cameo
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) – directed by Robert B. Weide
- Star Trek (2009)* – directed by J.J. Abrams
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) – directed by Carlos Saldanha & by Mike Thurmeier
- Burke & Hare (2010) – directed by John Landis
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) – directed by Michael Apted
- Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up (2010) – directed by Steve Martino & Mike Thurmeier – short
- Paul (2011)* – directed by Greg Mottola – also co-writer
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011)* – directed by Steven Spielberg
- The Death and Return of Superman (2011) – directed by Max Landis – short
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) – directed by Brad Bird
- A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) – directed by Crispian Mills & Chris Hopewell – also executive producer
- The Olympic Ticket Scalper (2012) – directed by Nick Corirossi & Charles Ingram – short
- Room on the Broom (2012) – directed by Jan Lachauer & Max Lang – TV short
- Nice Mustache (2013) – directed by Alec Robbins – short
- Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) – directed by J.J. Abrams
- The World’s End (2013)* – directed by Edgar Wright – also co-writer, executive producer
- Cuban Fury (2014) – directed by James Griffiths – uncredited cameo
- Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) – directed by Peter Chelsom
- The Boxtrolls (2014)* – directed by Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi
- Kill Me Three Times (2014) – directed by Kriv Stenders
- Man Up (2015) – directed by Ben Palmer – also executive producer
- Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) – directed by Christopher McQuarrie
- Absolutely Anything (2015) – directed by Terry Jones
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)* – directed by J.J. Abrams
- Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) – directed by Mike Thurmeier & Galen Tan Chu
- Star Trek Beyond (2016) – directed by Justin Lin – also co-writer
- Quantum Is Calling (2016) – directed by Alex Winter – short
- The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) – directed by Julius Onah
- Ready Player One (2018)* – directed by Steven Spielberg
- Terminal (2018) – directed by Vaughn Stein
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – directed by Christopher McQuarrie
- Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) – directed by Crispian Mills – also executive producer
- Lost Transmissions (2019) – directed by Katharine O’Brien
- Piney: The Lonesome Pine (2019) – directed by Todd Edwards & Timothy Hooten – short
- Inheritance (2020) – directed by Vaughn Stein
- The Sparks Brothers (2021) – directed by Edgar Wright – voice – documentary
- America: The Motion Picture (2021) – directed by Matt Thompson
- The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022) – directed by John C. Donkin
- Luck (2022) – directed by Peggy Holmes & Javier Abad
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) – directed by Christopher McQuarrie
- Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023) – directed by Adam Sigal
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) – directed by Christopher McQuarrie
- Ice Age 6 (2026) –
- Angels in the Asylum (202-) – directed by Rob Sorrenti
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