Simon John Pegg born 14 February 1970 is an English actor comedian screenwriter and producer He came to public prominence in the UK as the cocreator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced directed by Edgar Wright He went on to cowrite and star in the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy Shaun of the Dead 2004 Hot Fuzz 2007 and The Worlds End 2013 He and Nick Frost wrote and starred in the scifi film Paul 2011 Pegg is one of the few performers to have achieved what Radio Times calls the Holy Grail of nerddom playing popular supporting characters in Doctor Who 2005 Star Trek as Montgomery Scotty Scott 20092016 and Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 He currently stars as Benji Dunn in the Mission Impossible film series 2006present and he played the Chamberlain in The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance 2019