Dork Royalty: Simon Pegg

NAME: Simon John Pegg
DATE OF BIRTH: February 14th, 1970, Gloucester, England
OFFICIAL SITES: Peggster.net, Twitter

TRIVIA:
- He graduated from Bristol university in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre, film, and television.

- He went to Brockworth School in Gloucester and opened their new business centre in 2004.

- He's the godfather of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple.

- Nick Frost is his real life best friend and former flatmate.

- Lost 28 pounds for his role in Hot Fuzz.

- He worked in a UK department store in Bristol in the menswear department before he went into acting.

- His favorite film is Raising Arizona, and his favorite TV shows are "The X-Files" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

- His wife Maureen gave birth to their first child, a girl, in July 2009.

DORK CREDENTIALS:
- "Spaced" (1999-2001): star ("Tim Bisley"), co-creator (with Jessica Stevenson), co-writer (with Jessica Stevenson)

- Shaun of the Dead (2004): star ("Shaun"), co-writer (with Edgar Wright)

- "Doctor Who": guest star, 2005 episode "The Long Game" ("The Editor")

- Land of the Dead (2005): cameo ("photo booth zombie")

- Hot Fuzz (2007): star ("Nicholas Angel"), co-writer (with Edgar Wright)

- Grindhouse (2007): star, Don't trailer ("bearded cannibal")

- Diary of the Dead (2007): voice ("newsreader")

- Star Trek (2009): star ("Montgomery Scott")

- "Robot Chicken": various voices, two 2009 episodes

- Burke and Hare (2010): star ("William Burke")

- The World's End (2010): star, co-writer (with Edgar Wright)

- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011): star ("Inspector Thompson")

- He's a huge Star Wars fan and his work often includes references to the saga.

- In addition to the numerous visual references to Star Wars in Shaun of the Dead, Shaun's flatmate Pete is played by Peter Serafinowicz, who was the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.

- He was offered the lead role of Rorschach in one of the doomed movie adaptations of Watchmen.

- He was originally slated to play Rose Tyler's father in the first season of the 2005 incarnation of "Doctor Who".

- He was offered a role in Dog Soldiers but turned it down at Edgar Wright's request, as Wright wanted Shaun of the Dead to be Pegg's first role in a horror movie.

- He's a big fan of Gillian Anderson because of his love for "The X-Files".