Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter best known as Scotty in the Star Trek films, Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible series, and as co-writer of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End with Edgar Wright.

His other work includes co-creating the sitcom Spaced with Jessica Hynes, co-writing Paul, Unkar Plutt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Buck in the Ice Age films, and Hughie's father in The Boys.

Born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire in 1970, he studied theatre, film and television at the University of Bristol and began his career in stand-up comedy.