February 14: Happy Birthday Simon Pegg

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Simon Pegg is celebrating his 48th today. He began working in British television, as both a writer and an actor, in the mid-nineties. In 1999, he and actress Juliet Hynes created a sitcom called Spaced; the two wrote the episodes and starred, while Edgar Wright directed and Pegg’s friend Nick Frost had a co-starring role. In 2004, Pegg and Wright made the first of three films collectively called the “Cornetto” trilogy, a “romantic zombie comedy” called Shaun of the Dead; Pegg starred, Wright directed and the two co-wrote the screenplay, while Frost costarred, and Hynes had a cameo. Three years later came the second of the Cornetto films, a wildly comic take on buddy cop movies:


In 2013, Pegg, Wright and Frost finished off the Cornetto trilogy with the sci-fi comedy The World’s End. Pegg has also had major roles in a pair of big-budget franchises, playing Benji Dunn in the last three Mission: Impossible films and Montgomery Scott in the rebooted Star Trek series (and also co-writing the latest in the series). A handful of the other films on this busy man’s filmography have been Burke and Hare, Paul (co-written with Nick Frost), and Kill Me Three Times. In the coming year he will appear in the thriller Terminal and reprise his role as the junk dealer Unkar Plutt in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.