Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself 'what a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly even flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your tube carriage.

Pegg's other credits include the World War II mini-series Band of Brothers guest appearances on Black Books Brass Eye Special I'm Alan Partridge The Parole Officer and in the Factory Records story 24 Hour Party People. His parents divorced when he was seven and he took on the surname "Pegg" after his mother re-married. technician who assists Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt.

Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor comedian writer film producer and director. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Wright Nick Frost Jessica Hynes and Dylan Moran.