Simon Pegg has an estimated net worth of $25 million. This is from his career as a writer, producer and comedian. Pegg’s breakthrough came in 1999 when alongside Jessica Stevenson, he created and co-wrote the Channel 4 sitcom, Spaced.
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Pegg received a British Comedy Award as Best Male Comedy Newcomer for his performance, and the show itself was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Situation Comedy.
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Simon is one of the performers to have achieved what Radio Times call the “Holy Grail of Nerd-dom”, having played popular supporting characters Doctor Who and others.
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Pegg and Wright completed the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy with their 2013 film, The World’s End. In July 2014, Pegg appeared on stage with Monty Python during their live show Monty Python Live (Mostly) held at the O2Arena, London. He was a special guest in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Unkar Plutt, the Junkyard dealer on Jakku.
In 2020, Pegg sighed an open letter calling for the wealthiest in society to pay more taxes to help fight inequality.
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