Birthday's to share this week : 21st-27th August 2016.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Kristen Wiig does on 22nd August - check out my tribute to this Birthday Girl turning 43, at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 21st August

• Peter Weir - Born 1944, turns 72 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Carrie-Anne Moss - Born 1967, turns 49 - Actress | Producer
• Kim Catrall - Born 1956, turns 60 - Actress | Producer
• Hayden Panettiere - Born 1989, turns 27 - Actress | Producer | Singer  

Monday 22nd August

• Kristen Wiig - Born 1973, turns 43 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Singer
• Valerie Harper - Born 1939, turns 77 - Actress
• Honor Blackman - Born 1925, turns 91 - Actress
• Ty Burrell - Born 1967, turns 49 - Actor
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje - Born 1967, turns 49 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Richard Armitage - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actor
• Rodrigo Santoro - Born 1975, turns 41 - Actor  

Tuesday 23rd August

• Alexandre Desplat - Born 1961, turns 55 - Composer | Conductor | Songwriter
• Roger Avery - Born 1965, turns 51 - Writer | Producer | Director
• Charley Boorman - Born 1966, turns 50 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Scott Caan - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director  

Wednesday 24th August

• Rupert Grint - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actor
• James D'Arcy - Born 1975, turns 41 - Actor
• Steve Guttenberg - Born 1958, turns 58 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
• Stephen Fry - Born 1957, turns 59 - Actor | Television Personality | Writer | Producer | Director
• Kevin Dunn - Born 1956, turns 60 - Actor
• Anne Archer - Born 1947, turns 69 - Actress | Producer  

Thursday 25th August

• Blake Lively - Born 1987, turns 29 - Actress
• Alexander Skarsgard - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor
• Tom Hollander - Born1967, turns 49 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Tom Skerritt - Born 1933, turns 83 - Actor | Director
• Tim Burton - Born 1958, turns 58 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | Animator
• John Savage - Born 1949, turns 67 - Actor | Producer
• John Badham - Born 1939, turns 77 - Director | Producer | Actor
• Sean Connery - Born 1930, turns 86 - Actor | Producer  

Friday 26th August

• Chris Pine - Born 1980, turns 36 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Macaulay Culkin - Born 1980, turns 36 - Actor
• Melissa McCarthy - Born 1970, turns 46 - Actress | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer  

Saturday 27th August

• Tuesday Weld - Born 1943, turns 73 - Actress
• Peter Stormare - Born 1953, turns 63 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Tom Ford - Born 1961, turns 55 - Director | Producer | Writer | Fashion Designer
• Dean Devlin - Born 1962, turns 54 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor
• Aaron Paul - Born 1979, turns 37 - Actor | Producer 
• Ellar Coltrane - Born 1994, turns 22 - Actor 

Kristen Carroll Wiig was born in Canandaigua, New York to mother Laurie Johnston, an artist, and father Jon Wiig who managed a lakeside marina in Western New York. Her father is of Norwegian decent hence the surname which originates from a county in Western Norway. The family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania when Kristen was three years old, attending Nitrauer Elementary School and then Mannheim Township Middle School. At age thirteen the family moved to Rochester, New York where she attended Allendale Columbia School before graduating from Brighton High School. Undecided about her career aspirations she attended a local community college participating in a three month long outdoor living programme. She went on to the University of Arizona from where she majored in Art. Needing to complete her course programme she took acting classes and was persuaded by her teacher to continue the craft, whereupon she moved to Los Angeles to begin eeking out an acting career. She was nineteen years of age.

Upon arrival in LA she found work performing with the 'Empty Stage Comedy Theatre' and 'The Groundlings' - an improvisational and sketch comedy troupe and school located on Melrose Avenue in LA, feeling that improv. was more suited to her talents than straight acting. In 2003 she appeared on the reality television hoax show - 'The Joe Schmo Show' which ran for three seasons with her appearance as 'The Quack Marriage Counsellor' Patricia 'Dr. Pat' Lane. She was encouraged to try for 'Saturday Night Live' and she gained her debut in November 2005 on Season 31, and became a full member of the cast from Season 32 in 2006 through until 2012. Along the way she picked up Primetime Emmy Award nominations for 'Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series' in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and in 2009 'Entertainment Weekly' voted her in their list of Top 25 Funniest Women in Hollywood.

Over the years Wiig has had numerous television series roles on single and multiple episodes. These have included 'The Drew Carey Show', '30 Rock', 'Flight of the Conchords', Bored to Death', 'The Cleveland Show', 'The Simpsons', 'Portlandia', 'Arrested Development', 'The Spoils of Babylon', 'The Spoils Before Dying' and made for TV movie 'A Deadly Adoption'. She was also the voice of Lola Bunny on the 'Looney Tunes Show' from 2011 until 2014.

Wiig got her big screen break in the 2006 Christmas film 'Unaccompanied Minors' for Director Paul Feig. 2007 brought 'Knocked Up' for Director Judd Apatow with Seth Rogen, and then 'Meet Bill' with Aaron Eckhart, 'The Brothers Solomon' with Will Arnett and Will Forte, and rounding out a year of comedy 'Walk Hard : The Dewey Cox Story' with John C. Reilly.

2008 saw more comedy fare with 'Semi-Pro', 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', 'Pretty Bird' and 'Ghost Town', and then in 2009 more of the same with 'Adventureland', 'Whip It' in Drew Barrymore's Directorial debut and 'Extract'. 2010 followed up with 'Date Night', 'MacGruber' before her first non-comedic offering 'All Good Things' with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst which made just US$645K back of its US$20M budget outlay. Sci-Fi comedy 'Paul' with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and then 'Bridesmaids' came next in 2011 which Wiig also wrote. That film became a critical and commercial success grossing US$289M off its US$33M budget with Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations forthcoming for Wiig in the Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay categories.

'Friends with Kids', 'Revenge for Jolly', 'Girl Most Likely', 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' for Director and Co-Star Ben Stiller and 'Anchor Man 2 : The Legend Continues' saw out 2013. 'Hateship, Loveship', 'The Skeleton Twins' and 'Welcome To Me' which Wiig also Co-Produced wrapped up 2014. A mixed bag of commercial success and failures here with 'Walter Mitty' bringing in US$203M and 'Anchor Man' US$174M compared to 'Friends with Kids' at US$12.2M, 'The Skeleton Twins' at US$5.7M, 'Welcome To Me' just US$625K and 'Hateship, Loveship' a very poor US$81K despite its strong cast including Nick Nolte, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Hailee Steinfeld.

The next year brought 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl', 'Nasty Baby', 'The Martian', 'Zoolander 2' for Director and Co-Star once again Ben Stiller, the all girl 'Ghostbusters' for Paul Feig again with Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Lesley Jones and still out on general release, and 'Sausage Party' just released bringing us up to date.




Next up and due later this year is 'Masterminds' with Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Jason Sudekis and 'Ghostbusters' Co-Stars Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. Also due out this year is 'The Heyday of Insensitive Bastards' and 'Downsizing' with Matt Damon due in 2017. Wiig has lent her voice talents over the years to 'Ice Age : Dawn of the Dinosaurs', 'How to Train Your Dragon', 'Despicable Me', 'Despicable Me 2', 'Her', 'How to Train Your Dragon 2', 'Sausage Party' and is reprising her roles as Agent Lucy Wilde in 'Despicable Me 3' and Ruffnut Thorston in 'How to Train Your Dragon 3' due in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Also announced is 'Now That's What I Call' with Leonard Di Caprio and 'The Greatest Showman on Earth' with Hugh Jackman.

All up Wiig has 82 acting credits to her name, nine as Producer, three as a Writer, and, she can sing too. She has nine award wins and 59 other nominations including one Academy Award, one Golden Globe, one BAFTA and six Primetime Emmy nods. Wiig was married to Actor Hayes Hargrove from 2005 until 2009, and is currently dating Actor, Writer and Producer Avi Rothman. She is a vegetarian and is known for her love of chocolate.

Kristen Wiig - best known for her comedy track record, improv. skills and observational humour that puts her right up there as one of the best in the business; but, also carving out a reputation for more serious, dramatic and straight roles; has achieved much in ten years and is much in demand as a result; is keen to write her own material and to turn her hand at Directing; and is brutally honest with herself, about her fears and foibles and what she likes and what she doesn't. Keeping it real Kristen and keeping us well humoured and entertained as your star continues to rise - Happy Birthday to you, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-

Birthday's to share this week : 27th March - 2nd April 2016

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Nick Frost does on 28th March - check out my tribute to this Birthday Boy turning 44, at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 27th March

• Quentin Tarantino - Born 1963, turns 53 - Writer | Producer | Director | Actor 
• Michael York - Born 1942, turns 74 - Actor
• Julian Glover - Born 1935, turns 81 - Actor
• Holiday Grainger - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actress

Monday 28th March

• Julia Stiles - Born 1981, turns 35 - Actress | Writer | Director  
• Dianne Wiest - Born 1948, turns 68 - Actress  
• Vince Vaughn - Born 1970, turns 46 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Nick Frost - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Brett Ratner - Born 1969, turns 47 - Director | Producer
• Richard Kelly - Born 1975, turns 41 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Mike Newell - Born 1942, turns74 - Director | Producer

Tuesday 29th March

• Ed Skrein - Born 1983, turns 33 - Actor
• Christopher Lambert - Born 1937, turns 59 - Actor | Producer 
• Brendan Gleeson - Born 1955, turns 61 - Actor  
• Eric Idle - Born 1943, turns 73 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer | Songwriter
• Michael Winterbottom - Born 1961, turns 55 - Writer | Producer | Director | Editor
• Lucy Lawless - Born 1968, turns 48 - Actress  

Wednesday 30th March

• Robbie Coltrane - Born 1950, turns 66 - Actor 
• Warren Beatty - Born 1937, turns 79 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director  
• Paul Reiser - Born 1957, turns 59  - Actor | Producer | Writer

Thursday 31st March

• Ewan McGregor - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director    
• Christopher Walken - Born 1943, turns 73 - Actor   
• Richard Chamberlain - Born 1934, turns 82 - Actor
• Paul Mercurio - Born 1963, turns 53 - Actor  

Friday 1st April 

• Asa Butterfield - Born 1997, turns 19 - Actor 
• David Oyelowo - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor | Producer 
• Barry Sonnenfield - Born 1953, turns 63 - Director | Producer | Actor | Cinematographer
• Ali MacGraw - Born 1939, turns 77 - Actress
• Debbie Reynolds - Born 1932, turns 83 - Actress | Singer 

Saturday 2nd April

• Michael Fassbender - Born 1977, turns 39 - Actor | Producer  
• Jesse Plemons - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actor  
• Christopher Meloni - Born 1961, turns 55 - Actor | Director  

Nicholas John Frost was born in Dagenham, East London, England and is the son of office furniture designers. His older sister died at age eighteen, when he was ten, of an asthma attack. Five years later his parents business failed and as a consequence the Frost family had to move out of their home and in with their neighbours, where due to the stress of it all, the 15 year old Nicholas witnessed his mother having a stroke. He attended Beal High School - a co-ed secondary school in Redbridge, Greater London but left early to start work at a shipping company to help support his family. From there he spent almost two years at a kibbutz in Israel, and upon returning worked in a North London Mexican Restaurant where he first met up with Simon Pegg. Following this the two became close friends and flatmates . . . and the rest as they say is history!

In the late 90's after appearing in several corporate training video's, Simon Pegg and Actress/Writer Jessica Hynes wrote a role for Frost in the comedy series 'Spaced' based partly on Pegg's/Frost's slacker lifestyle at the time. The two series ran over seven episodes each in 1999 and 2001. What followed were a number of television series appearances on 'Black Books', Acorn Antiques' and as Host of 'Danger! 50,000 Volts!' and its follow up 'Danger' Incoming Attack'.

2004 brought his break out film debut in the ZomRomCom 'Shaun of the Dead' Written by Simon Pegg and Directed by Edgar Wright. Hailed a critical and commercial success, the film made US$30M from its US$6M production budget. More television shows followed including 'Twisted Tales' 'Look Around You', 'Supernanny' and 'Man Stroke Woman' before his next film appearance in 2005's 'Kinky Boots' with Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor. A bit part followed in the Tarantino and Rodriguez 'Grindhouse' horror double feature, before 'Hot Fuzz' with Simon Pegg again and also Directed by Edgar Wright. This film made US$81M from its US$12M outlay.

'The Boat That Rocked' sailed along in 2009 as Directed by Richard Curtis and also starring Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Chris O'Dowd, Gemma Arterton and Emma Thompson. Seeing out the decade there were other television shows that included 'Green Wing', 'Hyperdrive' and 'Money'.

2011 was a busy year with 'Paul' first off Written by Frost and Pegg and starring them both too in this Sci-Fi comedy road movie also with Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig. Sticking with Sci-Fi comedy of the horror kind came 'Attack The Block' with John Boyega and as Directed by Joe Cornish. Closing out that year and Directed by Steven Spielberg was 'The Adventures of Tintin' in which he plays the mo-capped identical brother to Simon Pegg as Thompson and Thompson.

The year following saw 'Snow White and the Huntsman' in which Frost plays one of the seven dwarves alongside an all star cast from dwarfdom comprising Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Eddie Marsan, and Toby Jones with Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Sam Claflin. Frost reprises his role in the imminent follow-up 'The Huntsman : Winter's War' with Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Sam Claflin also reprising with Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain joining the cast.

'The World's End' followed in 2013 written again by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and also again the latter on Directing duty so concluding their 'Three Flavours Cornetto' trilogy. The film also starred Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Pierce Brosnan, Bill Nighy and Rosamund Pike. 'Cuban Fury', 'Unfinished Business' and 'Syrenia' bring us up to date. In the meantime too there has been voice talent work on 'Ice Age : Continental Drift' and 'Boxtrolls'. In the last two years there has also been 'Mr. Sloane', 'Doctor Who' and 'Galavant' as further television appearances.

All up Frost has 43 Acting credits to his name, five Writer credits and three as Producer. He has two award wins and two nominations. Frost was raised a Catholic but is now atheist. He was married to half-Swedish wife Christina from 2008 until 2013 with whom he has a son born in mid-2011.

Nick Frost - bestest buddies with long term friend and collaborator Simon Pegg; at his funniest and probably most successful when appearing with him given the chemistry that obviously exists between them; able to play it straight or funny, and across genres and almost always tongue in cheek; and has seen much hardship and triumph to last a lifetime already which you can read about in his recently published memoir 'Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies' which recounts his first thirty years on this mortal coil. Happy Birthday to you Nick, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-

Birthday's to share this week : 14th - 20th February 2016.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Simon Pegg does on 14th February - check out my tribute to this Birthday Boy turning 46, at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 14th February

• Simon Pegg - Born 1970, turns 46 - Actor | Producer | Writer  
• Alan Parker - Born 1944, turns 72 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Freddie Highmore - Born 1992, turns 24 - Actor

Monday 15th February

•  Jane Seymour - Born 1951, turns 65 - Actress | Producer 
•  Jessica De Gouw - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actress

Tuesday 16th February

• Elizabeth Olsen - Born 1989, turns 27 - Actress  
• Ice-T - Born 1958, turns 58 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Singer | Songwriter | Composer
• Christopher Ecclestone - Born 1964, turns 52 - Actor

Wednesday 17th February

• Hal Holbrook - Born 1925, turns 91 - Actor
• Lou Diamond Phillips - Born 1962, turns 54 - Actor | Writer | Director
• Michael Bay - Born 1965, turns 51 - Director | Producer | Cameraman
• Dominic Purcell - Born 1970, turns 46 - Actor | Producer
• Jerry O'Connell - Born 1974, turns 42 - Actor | Producer | Director
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Born 1981, turns 35 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director 
• Rene Russo - Born 1954, turns 62 - Actress | Producer
• Brenda Fricker - Born 1945, turns 71 - Actress

Thursday 18th February

• Cybill Shepherd - Born 1950, turns 66 - Actress | Producer
• Greta Scacchi - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actress 
• Molly Ringwald - Born 1968, turns 48 - Actress
• John Travolta - Born 1954, turns 62 - Actor | Producer
• Matt Dillon - Born 1964, turns 52 - Actor
• George Kennedy - Born 1925, turns 91 - Actor
• Milos Forman - Born 1932, turns 84 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor

Friday 19th February

• Ray Winstone - Born 1957, turns 59 - Actor | Producer  
• Jeff Daniels - Born 1955, turns 61 - Actor | Director | Writer
• Benecio Del Toro - Born 1967, turns 49 - Actor | Producer 

Saturday 20th February

• Miles Teller - Born 1987, turns 29 - Actor
• Sidney Poitier - Born 1927, turns 89 - Actor | Director
• Mike Leigh - Born 1943, turns 73 - Director | Writer
• Peter Strauss - Born 1947, turns 69 - Actor | Producer
• Brenda Blethyn - Born 1946, turns 70 - Actress 

Simon John Beckingham was born and raised in the small Gloucestershire village of Brockworth, in England to mother Gillian Smith, a civil servant, and father John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician. When he was seven years old his parents divorced and he adopted the surname of his stepfather after his mother remarried. He attended Castle Hill Primary School, Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School and The Kings School, Gloucester. At 16, Pegg moved to Stratford-upon-Avon studying English Literature and Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon College. In 1991 he graduated from the University of Bristol with a BA in Theatre, Film and Television.

Thereafter he moved to London and started carving out a career in stand-up comedy. From here he secured a number of roles in television series including three episodes on 'Six pairs of Pants' in 1995, 'Faith in the Future' across 15 episodes from 1995-1998, six episodes of 'Asylum' in 1996, twelve episodes of 'We Know Where You Live' and six episodes of 'Is It Bill Bailey' in 1998.

His first film role came with 'Tube Tales' in 1999 - a series of nine chapters within the film each Directed by someone of note - including Bob Hoskins, Jude Law and Ewen McGregor amongst others. This was followed up by 'Guest House Paradiso' with Adrian Edmonton and Rik Mayall. Other film roles followed in 2001 with 'The Parole Officer' and '24 Hour Party People' in 2002, with television appearances on 'Hippies', and the Spielberg/Hanks collaboration 'Band of Brothers'.

In 1999 Pegg's breakthrough came with 'Spaced' which he created and starred in with good friend Nick Frost and Directed by Edgar Wright. He gained a British Comedy Award nomination for his role in 'Spaced' and as a result of this experience he and Edgar Wright co-wrote 'Shaun of the Dead' which was released in 2004. On the strength of this he was invited to appear in a cameo role on George A. Romero's 'Land of the Dead', before 'M:I 3' as Benji Dunn with Tom Cruise in 2006 - a role he has so far reprised twice.

After 'Big Nothing' in 2006, Pegg and Wright finished their second collaboration together with 'Hot Fuzz' starring Pegg and Frost as Police partners investigating a series of macabre deaths in a small sleepy English village. That year also came 'Run Fat Boy, Run' and a cameo once again in George A. Romero's 'Diary of the Dead', with 'How to lose friends and alienate people' in 2008.

2009 saw Pegg star as 'Scotty' for the first time in the reboot of the 'Star Trek' movie franchise at the hands of J.J.Abrams. The next few years saw 'Burke and Hare' as Directed by John Landis, and extra terrestrial offering 'Paul' with Nick Frost once again, and a Benji Dunn reprisal in Mission : Impossible - Ghost Protocol' in 2011.

'A Fantastic Fear of Everything' followed in 2012 and then his second outing as Scotty in 'Star Trek : Into Darkness' a year later with J.J. Abrams once again. Completing his 'Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy' in 2013 with 'The World's End' Directed by Edgar Wright and starring Nick Frost and a host of other British acting talent, he moved onto a cameo in Nick Frosts starring vehicle 'Cuban Fury' and then 'Hector and the Search for Happiness' with Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike and Stellen Skarsgard.

'Kill Me Three Times' was up next in 2014 with Luke Hemsworth and shot in Western Australia and Victoria, with 'Man Up' in 2015, 'Mission : Impossible - Rogue Nation', 'Absolutely Anything' and a small but eternally grateful role in 'Star Wars : The Force Awakens' for J.J. once more rounding out last year.





In the meantime, Pegg has lent his voice talents to the likes of 2009's 'Ice Age : Dawn of the Dinosaurs' as 'Buck' and will do so again in the upcoming next instalment in 2016 with 'Ice Age : Collision Course'. There was also 'The Chronicles of Narnia : The Adventures of the Dawn Trader' in 2010, 'The Adventures of Tin Tin : The Secret of the Unicorn' playing one half of the Thomson Twins to Nick Frost's other, and then 'Boxtrolls' in 2014. Next up for Pegg is 'Star Trek : Beyond' due for release in July this year and is co-written by him, and in which he'll reprise his role again of Scotty.

So far Pegg has 81 acting credits to his name, 23 Writer credits and eight Producer credits and along the way he has accumulated ten award wins and seventeen other film nominations from around the traps.

In mid-2005 Pegg married his long term girlfriend Maureen McCann with whom he has a daughter Matilda, born in 2009. Nick Frost was best man at their wedding. Pegg supports the 'HeForShe' gender equality campaign for womens rights.

Simon Pegg - self confessed 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek' geek; grounded in horror, comedy and Sci-Fi; a lover of 'The X-Files'; long term collaborator with Nick Frost and Edgar Wright; a great export of British film and television to Hollywood mainstream, fame and fortune on the page, on TV, at the cinema and behind the camera, Happy Birthday to you Simon, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-