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Simon John Pegg is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He and Wright co-wrote the films Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), known collectively as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, all of which saw Wright directing and Pegg starring a…
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entertainment · English actor (born 1970) · actor · film producer · writer · screenwriter · voice actor · comedian · television actor · director · also Simon Pegg, Simon John Pegg Beckingham, Simon Jonathan Pegg, Simon Jonathan Pegg Beckingham, Simon J. Pegg, Simon J. Pegg Beckingham
Born 14 February 1970 · Q238464
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They were sinking so low as to phoning up where I was and pretending to be my mother to get the story,
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“Everyone always asks: ‘Did he try and convert you? Is it all Scientology?’ But I’ve never seen that. I have glimpsed it a little bit – people from the church have been on set now and again, but he doesn’t proselytise about it.”
“They were sinking so low as to phoning up where I was and pretending to be my mother to get the story,”
“And wanting to give back something to those guys.”
“Before, me and Edgar [Wright] wrote and Nick came in as our magic weapon. Edgar and me were like the bosses, because we”
“Quentin has a picture of Nick in the cinema at his house in Mulholland Drive. He said Nick is the funniest man on earth, and that makes me want to cry a little bit, because I”
“Spielberg was just a nerdy little film-maker. Same as Sam Raimi , Peter Jackson and Quentin. All of them, just nerdy little film-makers.”
“The story I remember is somebody being fired from a feminist theatre company for saying,”
“The genesis of it was the death of the 80s superman; you know, the death of the Terminator , which was the ultimate expression of masculinity at that time in action movies. The man had become so ridiculously masculine that he was metal. Then came John McClane , with Bruce Willis, an action hero who was a little bit flawed, who allowed us to see masculinity as imperfect, and that ultimately led to me and Nick being the lead in films. Or Seth Rogen.”
“Take your hoverboots and dash, cred-snatcher!”
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“Your computer's RAM capacity is laughable to me, you megahead!”
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“Yeah, your mum makes gravy for leopards.”
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Yahoo: Simon Pegg Voices the Balrog in THE RINGS OF POWER Season 3
Yahoo: Simon Pegg joins the cast of The Rings of Power season 3 as an iconic Lord of the Rings character
The Guardian: The Undeclared War review – Simon Pegg’s cyber-attack thriller fails to push any of the right buttons
The Guardian: TV tonight: Simon Pegg’s cyber-thriller The Undeclared War returns
Released album “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”.
Pegg signed an open letter calling for the wealthiest in society to pay more tax in order to help fight inequality
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Pegg spoke of having respect for Jeremy Corbyn and believing in Britain Stronger in Europe's ideas in relation to the EU
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Appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Unkar Plutt, the Junkyard dealer on Jakku
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Pegg announced his support for the feminist campaign HeForShe
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Appeared as William Burke in Burke & Hare, a film directed by John Landis about two Ulstermen who were notorious murderers and bodysnatchers in early 19th-century Edinburgh
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Wrote the dialogue for an English language re-release of the cult 2006 animated Norwegian film, Free Jimmy
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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
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Played Gus in Big Nothing alongside David Schwimmer
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Pegg guest-starred in a spin-off of the television show Danger
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Created and co-wrote the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced with Jessica Stevenson
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With a BA in theatre, film, and television, titling his undergraduate thesis "A Marxist overview of popular 1970s cinema and hegemonic discourses"
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Born 1970-02-14.
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