Simon Pegg Biography
English actor, comedian, and playwright Simon John Pegg. In the United Kingdom, he rose to notoriety 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), together known as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, in which Wright directed and Pegg co-starred with Nick Frost. Pegg and Frost also wrote and starred in the 2011 science fiction comedy picture Paul.
Simon Pegg Age
Simon John Pegg was born on 14 February 1970 in Beckingham, England. He is 53 years old.
Simon Pegg Height
Simon has a height of · 5 feet 8 inches/ 1.78 m
Simon Pegg Education
When he was 16, Pegg traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, to study English literature and drama at Stratford-upon-Avon College. He received a BA in theatre, film, and television from the University of Bristol in 1991, with the title “A Marxist Overview of Popular 1970s cinema and hegemonic discourses” as his undergraduate thesis. He was a member of the comedy troupe “David Icke and the Orphans of Jesus” there, alongside David Walliams, Dominik Diamond, and Jason Bradbury.
Simon Pegg Family
Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham on 14 February 1970 in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, the son of former civil servant Gillian Rosemary (née Smith) and jazz musician and keyboard dealer John Henry Beckingham. When he was seven, his parents split, and he adopted his stepfather’s surname “Pegg” after his mother remarried. His brother, Mike (who appeared in the 2020 film The Host), still goes by Beckingham. He went to Castle Hill Primary School, Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School, and The King’s School, all in Gloucester.
Simon Pegg Husband
Pegg is agnostic. On July 23, 2005, he married his long-term lover, music industry publicist Maureen McCann, in Glasgow. They live in Hertfordshire’s Essendon. The best man at Nick Frost’s wedding was him. The couple has one child, who was born in 2009.
Simon Pegg’s Net Worth
Simon’s amassed net worth is $25 million.
Simon Pegg Career
Six Pairs of Pants (Meridian & Anglia, 1995), Asylum, Faith in the Future, Big Train, and Hippies were among Pegg’s early TV and cinema performances. He was a regular on BBC Radio 4’s The 99p Challenge from 1998 until 2004. He has also been in the World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, as well as the television comedies Black Books, Brass Eye, and I am Alan Partridge, as well as the films The Parole Officer, 24 Hour Party People, and Guest House Paradiso. During the 1998 tour of Steve Coogan’s live stage performance The Man Who Thinks He Is It, he played a variety of roles.
He is good friends with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, and he appears in the video for Coldplay’s 2010 single “Christmas Lights” as a violin-playing Elvis impersonator. He is the godfather of Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter Apple, along with Jonny Buckland. In exchange, Martin serves as godfather to Pegg’s daughter. He revealed in a video interview with British GQ magazine in July 2018 that his daughter has sung background vocals for Coldplay onstage at the Glastonbury Festival. He is also the godfather of actor and friend Martin Freeman’s son. His dad and sister featured briefly in Spaced, and his mother appeared in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
He discussed his battles with depression and alcoholism in a July 2018 interview with The Guardian, and how rehab helped him recover from the latter. I am not embarrassed by what transpired. And I believe that if someone finds any connection to it, it will encourage them to do better. But I am not proud of it, and I do not think it is cool like I was Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll, with the blackout and all that nonsense. It wasn’t; it was just awful.”
He entered rehab just before the filming of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Through court orders, he kept his recovery from the press, while some journalists went so far as to phone the facility pretending to be his mother. He attended meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and has maintained his sobriety ever since.
Simon Pegg Movies and TV shows
Movies
- 2018 Terminal (Bill)
- 2018 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Benji Dunn)
- 2018 Slaughterhouse Rulez (Meredith Houseman)
- 2019 Lost Transmissions (Theo Ross)
- 2019 Piney: The Lonesome Pine (Jackster (voice)
- 2020 Inheritance (Morgan Warner)
- 2021 The Sparks Brothers (John Lennon (voice)
- 2021 America: The Motion Picture (King James (voice)
- 2022 Luck (Bob (voice)
- 2023 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Benji Dunn) (The Entity (voice)
- Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (Nandor Fodor) (2023)
- 2025 Untitled eighth Mission: Impossible (Benji Dunn)
Tv Shows
- 2018 Running Man (Himself (special guest)
- 2019, 2022 The Boys (Hugh Campbell Sr)
- 2019 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (The Chamberlain (skekSil) (voice)
- 2020 Archer (Aleister (voice)
- 2020 Truth Seekers (Dave)
- 2021 Staged (Himself)
- 2022 The Boys Presents: Diabolical (Hughie Campbell (voice)
- 2022 The Undeclared War (Daniel Patrick)
- 2023 Agent Elvis (Paul McCartney)
- 2023 Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Studio Security Guard #1)
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