Simon Pegg
This goo was worth a point in May 2024.
publication date: Sunday, April 28, 2024 (part of May 2024)
category: 
Movies
clue: When he had a break from fixing the Enterprise's engines, running from zombies in London, and helping Ethan Hunt pull off impossible missions, he played a junk boss who resembled a blobfish in The Force Awakens.
explanation: Pegg had starred in the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible films as well as Shaun of the Dead. more…
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and Erik Bates
trivia: Pegg had a second role in Star Wars, voicing a bounty hunter in one episode of The Clone Wars.
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